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.
Here’s something optimistic for your Sunday afternoon: Death! In his talk at the Global Atheist Convention in Melbourne, Sam Harris gave a talk on “Death and the Present Moment”: As always, if there are any bits we should pay special attention to, just leave the timestamp and a summary in the comments. Read more
The town of Franklin, Vermont will no longer be saying prayers at their annual March meeting thanks to one courageous woman, Marilyn Hackett. Since 2000, the beginning of the annual meeting has included a Christian prayer like this one: Let us pray together. Lord, we thank you for this day as we come together as a community, and as we share this time together, we pray that you would bless each family, each person that serves in our community –… Read more
Greta Christina’s writing her next book and she wants to know how you came out as an atheist: I want to know: what you said; how you said it; how the person/ people you came out to responded; what the results/ consequences of coming out were; how (if at all) things have changed with time; whether, on the whole, you’re happy you came out or regret doing so Just to be clear, she doesn’t need to know why you became… Read more
Leah Libresco is running her second “Ideological Turing Test” experiment. Here’s how it works: A number of questions were posed to both atheists and Christians. The goal was to respond as atheists. That’s not a problem for the real atheists, but can the Christians imitate us? More importantly, can you tell the difference? There are 13 entries. Read them. judge them. Answers will be revealed soon! Please don’t discuss your answers in the comments — let everyone decide for themselves! Read more