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.
The Melbourne Leader newspaper in Australia has a brief-but-favorable article about Cristina Rad — better known to YouTube viewers at ZOMGitsCriss — in anticipation of her upcoming visit to the country: “I have no friends who share my world views … as soon as something serious comes up in conversation I just cringe at the mentality around me,” said Rad… “I hear people hating on other people just for being different — anybody not straight, not white, not a Christian,… Read more
According to an article in The Daily Utah Chronicle, some students at Brigham Young University are meeting in secret to talk about their lack of faith: Andrew Johnson, a junior in biotechnology at Utah Valley University, founded The Group in October 2010 as a safe place for secular humanists, agnostics and freethinkers in Utah County. Johnson started the group after returning from a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Indiana, disenchanted with the faith. “I… Read more
The Secular Student Alliance at Southern Illinois University Carbondale is now an official student organization… but that almost didn’t happen. The Undergraduate Student Government voted against their existence earlier this week: At the USG meeting Tuesday, five senators voted no to the approval, three voted yes and two abstained from taking a stance. Spencer Tribble, USG vice-president, said he believes the senators may have allowed their religious beliefs to get in the way of voting objectively. … Benjamin Warren, a… Read more
Milestone Church in Keller, Texas is planning a special event soon just for men. You know how I know it’s just for men? Because I saw this banner on their website… (If I’m opposed to all three of those things, what does that make me…?) Anyway, YEAH! MEN! We kill shit! And then we offer it up to Jesus while we PRAY! And then we’re gonna have a FOOD FIGHT! SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY! Oh. And then there was also this… Read more
In response to DC Comics’ recent “reboot” (in which the publisher reset all 52 of its recurring series at Issue #1), Ryan Sohmer and Joe Eisma at Gutters (a comic book parody site) show us what would happen if the Christian myth were also “reboot”: You can read the rest of the page here 🙂 You could rewrite the Bible all you want to fix the problems within it and it still wouldn’t make sense. I’m sure the diehard fans… Read more
