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.
How would you like it if the new manager at your workplace came in and said you’d have to reapply for your job because there are new requirements for all employees? That’s what happening at a daycare in Waukee, Iowa. Happy Time Daycare and preschool, while housed in a church, didn’t sound like that bad an environment… but under new management, it’s now going to be called the Point of Grace Children’s Academy and all 22 workers will have to… Read more
Last month, popular Christian apologist Josh McDowell made news (at least in the atheist world) when he called the Internet a threat to Christianity: “The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have… whether you like it or not,” said McDowell… … “Now here is the problem,” said McDowell, “going all the way back, when Al… Read more
Republicans should take note: God spoke to Dr. Metablog and told him which candidates need to get out of the presidential race: I asked Him if He had any other preferences in the upcoming election. He sighed. “I don’t want either Bachmann or Palin either. They’re doofae.” I wasn’t surprised that God was so adamantine about B and P, because of their shallow religiosity and deficient knowledge of history, but I was truly shocked that God called them by the… Read more
Christian author Don Miller, who so ungracefully told men and women what they should do if they ever wanted to find love (and then deleted the posts when even Christians pushed back against his advice), wants to know why women “hook up”: … I am curious about why some girls give up sex easily and whether or not they view their sexuality as a commodity. In other words, do you use sex for some kind of social power or to… Read more
