Last month, two popular Christian musicians, Derek Webb and Sandra McCracken, announced that they would be getting divorced after 13 years of marriage. That’s not necessarily anyone’s business but their own, but a couple of points (that are public knowledge) may be worth mentioning here. First, is a line from the couple’s announcement: Read more
Darrell Trigg wants to become the next president. And just wait till you hear his platform for the Christian Party: Read more
The video below, part of The Atheist Voice series, discusses the disappointing results of a recent poll: Read more
These subtly desaturated images are the work of Swedish photographer David Magnusson, who worked on his U.S. Purity Balls project on and off for a year. The photos will culminate in a book, scheduled to be released in August. My (agnostic) friend Kristi, who spotted the portraits at Flavorwire, wrote me a message today saying she was nauseated and observed that “the dads’ hands/arms are wrapped around these girls like prison bars.” But Magnusson may disagree: Read more
A couple of days ago, I posted about the baseball dynasty at Owasso High School in Oklahoma. Their coach Larry Turner had led the team to multiple state titles and a perfect season last year. But a profile of Turner in a local newspaper shed light on a troubling aspect of his leadership: Read more
A couple of years ago, sixth-grader Chad Dehler asked a Creationist a tough question during the Q&A part of a debate and the response was a garbled mess of nonsense. Well, Chad’s in seventh grade now and he posed another great question to a Christian philosopher his father Bernie was debating last month. Read more
There’s been some nasty flooding in Pensacola, Florida over the past few days and Creationist Eric Hovind used the tragedy to his advantage. In a video he uploaded yesterday, Hovind is seen interviewing people whose streets have been ruined and property damaged by the erosion. Why is he talking to them? To convince viewers that if destruction like that can happen in a short time span due to the rain, then the Grand Canyon could also have been created in a matter of days due to the mythical flood in Genesis. Read more
In 2012, British education secretary Michael Gove sent a copy of the King James Bible to every school in England at a cost of £370,000 (about $625,000). He said religion had nothing to do with it; it was just a very historically relevant book. It’s the sort of thing GOP members would do months before every election just to prove to voters they love Jesus. This week, the British Humanist Association decided to play his game, sending Alom Shaha’s The Young Atheist’s Handbook: Lessons for Living a Good Life Without God to schools across England and Wales. Read more
This Mississippi door sticker for retail businesses and restaurants sure looks innocuous, doesn’t it? It’s a way for owners to signal that all customers will be treated with basic respect. If you have money, well, your green is as good as anyone else’s. But beware. While the American Family Association stops short of calling the no-discrimination message the mark of the beast, executive vice president Buddy Smith is warning consumers and shopkeepers that not discriminating is a just another way to bully Christians. Read more
