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.
Discussions about raising children with or without faith don’t appear often on popular sitcoms, so we’re grateful when it does. On last night’s episode of How I Met Your Mother, Lily and Marshall had an interesting conversation regarding the book “Enigmas of the Mystical” and how they would raise their child. They might as well have been talking about religion. The clip begins at the 5:19 mark: Lily: Yeah, those enigmas always seemed a bit thin to me… Marshall: Thin!… Read more
I laughed 🙂 On the first day, God created the heavens and the earth. “Let there be light,” He said, and there was light. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening — the first night. On the second day, God separated the oceans from the sky. “Let there be a horizon,” He said. And lo: a horizon appeared and God saw that it was good. And there was evening — the second night. On the third… Read more
Don’t think the billboard promoting Larry Taunton’s book The Grace Effect is a big deal? Just another example of a silly Christian billboard in the South? Well, here’s a question for anyone just glossing over it: Would Christians react the same way if we put up an equally ignorant billboard? Reader Keith created this mockup: Arguably, this would get media attention, even though the implication that a devoutly religious leader would end up just like Hitler makes no sense. I’m… Read more
***Update***: It’s a Poe. Nicely done, Manka Bros. … It’s exactly as bad as you think it’s going to be. And it starts with these lyrics: Whatchu gonna do with atheists? All those pagan atheists? I’m gonna set set set them free. Make them Christian just like me. My jaw. It hurts from dropping so far… (Thanks to pleomorphic for the link) Read more
Here’s a perfect example of bad reporting. John Trumbo of the Tri-City Herald in Washington state wrote an article about Greg Morgan, a local man who recently found an unusual sandstone formation. And there’s only one conclusion he can draw from it: Morgan, who is a mechanical engineer and worked in the aviation industry before coming to Hanford, said he was shocked when he first saw a picture of The Wave because it contradicted his original thinking about an ancient… Read more