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.
CNN is jumping on the “Black atheists exist!” bandwagon — their angle focuses on black atheists in the South: Benjamin Burchall first realized how different his experience in the South was going to be while looking for something to watch on television on a Sunday night. “I couldn’t find anything on television but religious programming,” says Burchall, 38, a former Christian minister and agricultural consultant who moved from Long Beach, California, to Atlanta for work in 2010, “And I thought,… Read more
Sam Harris has just announced that February 28th will be the release date of his next long-form essay, Free Will: Free Will follows his previous venture into e-publishing, Lying. That one turned out to be a quick yet provocative read — I hope this essay raises as many questions and thought experiments as the previous one did. In case you want a sneak preview, my guess is that much of the book will be culled from his previous writing on… Read more
Over at ccMixter.org, a music site where remixing is the norm, Kara (better known as Mind Map That) has written a really catchy song called “Please Don’t Wish Me a Merry Christmas” 🙂 You can stream it right here. You have to appreciate a chorus that goes like this: Please don’t wish me a Merry Christmas (ho, ho, ho) Please just skip to a Happy New Year (fa-la-la) Please don’t wish me a Merry Christmas (ho, ho, ho) Though I… Read more
What happens when an atheist reviews the Holy Bible on Amazon? He gives it the lowest possible rating, writes up a hilarious (and spot on) critique, starts up a large discussion thread, and chaos ensues: This book has it all. Cutting off women’s hands for helping to fend off their husband’s attackers; directing the slaughtering of children with a bear attack and by mass murder; genocide galore; human sacrifice and the threat of it; and killing an innocent on behalf… Read more
Note to self: Don’t ever make a bet where the loser has to get a tattoo or this will happen: That’s an image of Christian quarterback Tim Tebow, football in one hand, cross in the other. Juan Contreras explained to ESPN how he got the tattoo: Contreras and his friend Gabe Lopez, who owns Love N Hate Elite Tattoo Studio in Denver, took great delight earlier this season in teasing fellow Broncos fan Josh Lucero about being a Tebow supporter…. Read more