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.
Reader Peter sends along this conversation he had recently: I am a physician and had a patient come see me. He is a retired police office but works for a “Church Security” company. “What is that?” I asked. He replied, “Most people don’t know that about 90% of churches have at least one person inside with a concealed weapon.” So there are now security people who specialize in churches. Mostly they are there for petty theft, etc. But there is… Read more
In case you missed NBC’s New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly, then you missed Cee Lo Green singing a rendition of John Lennon’s “Imagine.” Normally, the song goes like this: Imagine there’s no countries It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too But this is how Cee Lo sang it: Imagine there’s no countries It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And all religion’s true You can see the… Read more
When you consider all the contributions people have given to the Foundation Beyond Belief via widgets, our website, and checks in the mail, we’re not far from reaching our goal of $15,000. As Dale McGowan writes: That’s really close to securing a quarter of the modest funding we need for 2012, which has me dancing in my jammies. If we end up raising the additional $2,450 in the next 11 hours, I may just have to sing in them. Make… Read more