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.
In case you missed picking up a copy of Sam Harris’ e-book Lying (currently $1.99), it’s now available as a PDF for $2.99. I really liked it and I hope Harris comes out with more of these essays. Here’s one classic thought experiment he refers to in the book: A Nazi soldier comes to your door and demands that you tell him where Anne Frank is hiding. You know she’s hiding in your attic. What do you do if you… Read more
A couple of years ago, the Atheist Longhorns from the University of Texas at Austin adopted a street… but like so many campus atheist groups, this one disappeared, presumably when its leader graduated. Now, there is new blood in the organization. They’ve rebranded themselves at the Secular Student Alliance at the University of Texas at Austin and they’re focusing on service projects: The group is primarily a service organization and participated in National Secular Student Service Day on Oct. 3… Read more
Remember how the Mid Ohio Atheists said they were going to put up the following billboards? That second billboard was inspired by a local church (that put up a billboard with the same message). Both were supposed to go up next week… But now we have a problem. The company tasked with getting the billboards in place say they no longer wants to put them up: Michael tells the story this way: We contacted LIND Billboard Company and worked with… Read more
Two new (digital) atheist billboards just went up in South Carolina, courtesy of the newly-formed Columbia Coalition of Reason: They were placed by the Columbia Coalition of Reason (Columbia CoR) with $7,000 in funding from the United Coalition of Reason (UnitedCoR). The ad campaign marks the public launch of Columbia CoR, an alliance of four established non-theistic groups in the South Carolina midlands. The ads will be up for the next month, which means they’ll be around during the big… Read more
Reader Anju was chatting online yesterday with a customer service rep from Bank of America. This is how the conversation ended: “Have a blessed day ahead”? That’s…. weird. It’s not a huge deal, but since so much of that conversation is boilerplate script, I wonder if that line was approved by BoA or if it was just some personal flair… Assuming it’s the latter, how would you have responded? I figure most of you would have just shrugged it off… Read more