Hemant Mehta is the founder and editor of FriendlyAtheist.com, a YouTube creator, and podcast co-host. He is a former National Board Certified math teacher in the suburbs of Chicago. He has appeared on CNN and FOX News and served on the board of directors for Foundation Beyond Belief and the Secular Student Alliance. He has written multiple books, including I Sold My Soul on eBay and The Young Atheist's Survival Guide. He also edited the book Queer Disbelief.
That was the topic on the Ask An Atheist podcast this past weekend: A few months ago we put our an open call to our listeners to provide us with non-religious reasons to oppose abortion rights. While some listeners responded with a few arguments they’d encountered, we heard very few atheist abortion opponents. … The majority of arguments against abortion are religiously motivated and not based on science. Science says nothing about souls, about any god giving the breath of… Read more
It seems like the CNN interview I did on Saturday isn’t online anywhere. Boo… since I haven’t seen it yet and I kind of want to 🙁 (If you get me a video copy, I’ll give you $9834913123 of Internet money.) But the transcript is online! Anytime there’s a TV interview, facial reactions and tone carry a lot of weight and you’re not getting any of that below. Feel free to use your imagination: LEMON: OK. So this topic really… Read more
If you’re part of a marginalized group in America, it means you probably have no one in Congress to represent you and fight for you. In the Philippines, there’s a way to combat this: It’s called the Party-List Systems Act: The State shall promote proportional representation in the election of representatives to the House of Representatives through a party-list system of registered national, regional and sectoral parties or organizations or coalitions thereof, which will enable Filipino citizens belonging to marginalized… Read more