A coalition of four secular organization — the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, the Secular Coalition for America, the Secular Student Alliance, and the Stiefel Freethought Foundation — are coming together to highlight and hopefully prevent cases of anti-atheist discrimination: Read more
You know, if you don’t want to pay your taxes, just say so… Don’t try and pretend you really live in another country: Read more
Camp Quest Oklahoma, a summer camp aimed at kids from freethinking families, is facing a major shortage of male counselors this summer. And that could mean turning away a lot of the boys currently enrolled. Read more
Tornado season has come roaring back, and the devastation across the Midwest and South is already shocking. We grieve the loss of life, the injuries, and damage to property. Individuals and groups will be rallying to bring aid to people who are seriously affected by the storms, and it seems likely that atheist groups will be among those out there helping just like they were last year. In anticipation of that, here is a suggested t-shirt design for the atheist groups who will be doing what they can to bring people what they need: Read more
A new CBS News poll on the topic of death shows that Americans are living in a fantasy-world when it comes to thinking about their own mortality. In general, we believe in the afterlife (for which there’s no evidence), we believe we’re going to Heaven (because we’re all good people, every one of us), and we want to make sure we take up space when we die (because our post-mortal bodies have no use other than lying six feet under forever). But here’s where it gets really weird: Read more
The United Church of Christ made history on Monday when it filed a federal lawsuit challenging Amendment One, the voter-approved measure that banned same-sex marriage in North Carolina. A component of Amendment One bars clergy from performing wedding ceremonies for same-sex couples because they don’t have a legal marriage license, a policy UCC clergy say violates their right to religious freedom. From the Equality North Carolina press release: Read more
The New Mexico Coalition of Reason is launching this weekend with a free event in Albuquerque: Read more
Back in February, I posted about how the Williston Atheists (in Florida) wanted to erect a pro-atheist monument outside the Levy County Courthouse where a Ten Commandments monument currently resides (see image below): The group was modeling its efforts after what American Atheists did outside the Bradford County Courthouse in northern Florida last summer: Read more
Hannah Ettinger, writing for Cracked, offers “5 Insane Lessons from My Christian Fundamentalist Childhood.” While a lot of it may be familiar to readers, this one caught me by surprise, until I realized how much sense it made: Read more
