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.
Back in June, on the brink of economic disaster, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania mayor Linda Thompson unveiled her brilliant plan to rescue the city: Thompson and a host of other religious leaders are about to embark on a three-day fast and prayer campaign to cure the city’s daunting money woes. … “Things that are above and beyond my control, I need God,” Thompson told WHTM TV, the region’s ABC news affiliate. “I depend on Him for guidance. Spiritual guidance. That’s why it’s… Read more
Are there any atheists working at FOX News? Is Bill O’Reilly really that clueless or is it all an act? Why didn’t American Atheists’ Dave Silverman tell O’Reilly how the tides actually work? All those questions are answered in this interview between Dave and David Pakman: (Thanks to Mike for the link!) Read more
Betty Bowers is a True ChristianTM and she knows exactly how we Americans ignore the words of Jesus: Highlight: If we give all our money to the poor, they’d be rich and we’d be poor, so we’d have to give it all right back to us! You just save a step and keep it. Trust me. You can’t be both Capitalist and Christian if you don’t have the stones to outsmart Commie Christ. (Thanks to Mimi for the link!) Read more
I know Pastor Robert Jeffress is under fire right now for calling Mormonism a “cult” — as if it’s any less cultish than, say, Catholicism — but Dr. James F. McGrath at Exploring the Matrix points out another fun little comment he made at the recent Values Voter Summit: [Jeffress] also lauded Perry’s “strong commitment to biblical values.” “Do we want a candidate who is skilled in rhetoric or one who is skilled in leadership? Do we want a candidate… Read more
This is the cover of the latest issue of the New Yorker: Ok, I “get” the image. I know it’s not about Steve Jobs’ faith and that it’s about his products’ omnipresence. I know the image is a “universally understood” icon of the afterlife. Still, does anyone else find it disrespectful that Jobs, a Buddhist (if anything at all), is being portrayed as a man making his way to the Pearly Gates of Christianity? Xavier Lanier feels the same way:… Read more
