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.
This is an article by Sean Faircloth. Sean is author of Attack of the Theocrats: How the Religious Right Harms Us All and What We Can Do About It. Faircloth served ten years in the Maine legislature and is now Director of Strategy & Policy with the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science, US. … Des Moines has a beautiful retro bar called “High Life Lounge” decked out like a 1971 man cave: shag carpets from out of Scooby-Doo,… Read more
Rick Santorum gets asked why same-sex couples can’t get married. He responds by asking the questioner if it’s ok for multiple people to get married… because, you know, that’s the same thing: To quote a commenter at Joe. My. God.: It’s as if he tells me that he thinks capital punishment is good and I ask him to defend genocide instead of explaining why capital punishment is bad. Not that I’d be opposed to polygamy, but you have to love… Read more
You know the Brick Testament, Brendan Smith’s wonderful and hilarious series of Bible stories told through carefully placed Lego pieces? The series that’s spawned several books? Well, Catholic Kathy Schiffer just made a remarkable discovery: The Brick Testament doesn’t make you want to become a Christian! Her article reads like someone who just found out The Onion isn’t an actual news source… At first glance, a Lego Bible seemed an enviably good idea. The Creation Story, the Sermon on the… Read more
This is a guest post by frequent commenter Claudia. … Yes, I know the prospect of yet another post on sexism within the atheist community, along with its accompanying civil and productive comments thread, fills you with joy and enthusiasm. So prepare to rejoice! In a previous post, Hemant mentioned women being frequently “propositioned for sex” within the movement. Of course, it was a part of a much larger point of women feeling devalued, or valued exclusively as sexual objects,… Read more