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.
Bradford County, Florida just got a present, courtesy of the group Men’s Fellowship. It’s a Ten Commandments monument to put outside the county courthouse! “It’s not only important for this community,” [leader of the group Harry] Hatcher said of the Ten Commandments. “It’s important for any community. It’s important for individuals.” The Decalogue enshrined in a monument on display in the community “is very symbolic of God’s love for mankind,” he said. God “knew what was best by giving us… Read more
There have been a couple of updates on Forest Heights Community School senior William Swinimer, the Nova Scotia student who wore a shirt reading “Life is Wasted without Jesus” and got in trouble for it. He returned to school today after his five-day suspension — wearing the same shirt — but his father quickly pulled him out: John Swinimer said he wants Forest Heights Community School in Chester Basin, Lunenburg County, to only teach the basic courses, leaving religion out… Read more
The Farmington Independent has a nice article about Bill Lehto, a Minnesotan who collected the personal “coming out” stories from people in the state and put them into a book with proceeds benefitting Minnesota Atheists. The hope is that the book will make it easier for readers to go public with their own atheism. Full disclosure: I blurbed the book. Which sounds much more scandalous than it really is. Atheist Voices of Minnesota won’t be available until August, but you… Read more
A Secular Student Alliance group just began at SUNY New Paltz (in New York) and, to advertise their meetings, the group put up flyers reading, “ARE YOU GOOD WITHOUT GOD? We are too.” “What?! Atheists have meetings?! That must be called into question!” said an ignorant person somewhere… In case you can’t read the handwritten note on the bottom left, it says: “Dear ‘Seculars’: Is there a point of people who believe in nothing, gathering?” The atheists pinned an excellent… Read more
In coverage you would never see on the major news networks, The Alyona Show offered a fantastic segment on the National Day of Reason and brought on Sean Faircloth (of the Richard Dawkins Foundation) to talk about why the nontheistic response to the National Day of Prayer is so important: Also interesting: At the 8:18 mark, host Alyona Minkovski asks Sean about the selection of Edwina Rogers as his successor at the Secular Coalition for America. He has only positive… Read more
