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.
Chris Dees, the president of the Freethinkers, Agnostics, and Atheists of Mississippi State University, has put together an awesome project to help unite Southern atheists. (Wait, did we just go from no atheist groups in the state to two of them?! Awesome.) The project is called Southern Atheists United for Candid Expression, Freethought, Openmindedness, Reason And Living Life (SAUCEFORALL). Nifty acronym? Check. Oxford comma? No check. Anyway, title aside, the objective is pretty awesome: It will basically be a network… Read more
What do you do when several college atheist groups all exist in the same region? You have a party and invite everybody! SSA affiliates from UC San Diego, UC Riverside, Cal Lutheran University, and San Diego State University are gathering at Morley Field in San Diego on November 5th and they’re inviting any students in the area who might be interested: More information is here. Someone eat a Boca Burger on my behalf! (Thanks to Michael for the link!) Read more
This is a guest post by Catherine D. She is a former liberal Catholic theologian with a masters degree from a well respected school of theology It was during her studies that Catherine had the epiphany that she was not a believer. … The last place you might think to find an atheist or agnostic would be in the pulpit leading a congregation, but you’d be wrong. Unbelieving clergy exist. In fact, we are even organized. Through the efforts of… Read more
This image has been making some rounds on Facebook and found its way into my inbox: It looks like a funny response to the image until you start reading it and find out its Christian propaganda. Do Muslims want to convert or kill non-Muslims? The Koran says yes, but (obviously) most Muslims don’t accept that. The same goes for the Bible, with all of its violent passages. We’re fortunate that in the cherrypicking that religious people do, most come to… Read more
It slipped my mind that today was the day the University of Georgia Atheists were protesting Pastor Mark Driscoll’s event… until I started seeing 349723 comments coming in from Christians trolling the informational post. So how did it go? Well, they caught Driscoll’s attention. He even told his fan club: If you read through those comments, you’d get the impression the atheists were trying to start a riot… which they weren’t. They just wanted to inform the attendees at the… Read more
