The video below, part of The Atheist Voice series, discusses how a KKK leader claimed he wasn’t racist. Rather, he was Christian: You can read more about this story here. We’d love to hear your thoughts on the project — more videos will be posted soon — and we’d also appreciate your suggestions as to which questions we ought to tackle next! And if you like what you’re seeing, please consider supporting this site on Patreon. Read more
Dustin Curry took a road trip not too long ago that included a stop in Topeka, Kansas. Naturally, he stopped by Westboro Baptist Church and the Equality House across the street. His video diary cracked me up — you can skip to 1:42 for the Westboro part: Read more
The team at Above Average created this helpful guide to people who may encounter an atheist (though it also takes some fun shots at our side, too): Read more
Earlier this year, a group of Creationists at Phoenix Interactive Studios went to Kickstarter to raise funds for a video game called “Bible Chronicles: The Call of Abraham.” It was to be an action role-playing game where you were a part of Abraham’s posse, traveling along as he goes on his quest. Read more
Last May, the Appignani Humanist Legal Center of the American Humanist Association sued Carroll County, Maryland because its Board of Commissioners’ public meetings often began with “Commissioner-delivered sectarian prayers.” These prayers weren’t just non-denominational. They were plainly endorsing Christianity. See if you can figure out how I know that: Read more
News from one of our moderate (some would say progressive) Muslim allies: the Sharia Court of Appeal in Amman, Jordan, found that women who don’t cover up are “sluts” whose fairness and honesty is compromised — and who therefore may be excluded from appearing as witnesses. The court announced late last week that it agreed with one lawyer’s statement — based on a fatwa — that says a woman who does not cover up or wear a hijab is considered a “slut” and shouldn’t be allowed to testify in court. The country’s Women’s Union released a statement … that describes the court’s decision as discrimination against women and a violation of the Jordanian Constitution, which considers all Jordanian men and women as equals. Read more
When American Atheists’ Amanda Knief and Dave Silverman went to a local TD Bank branch in Cranford, New Jersey to get a few documents notarized — as they’d done many times before — they encountered an unusual obstacle, as Knief noted in a Facebook post: Read more
Here’s Focus on the Family President Jim Daly in 2011, responding to an interview question about whether evangelicals were winning over the younger generation when it came to same-sex marriage: We’re losing on that one, especially among the 20- and 30-somethings: 65 to 70 percent of them favor same-sex marriage. I don’t know if that’s going to change with a little more age — demographers would say probably not. We’ve probably lost that. I don’t want to be extremist here, but I think we need to start calculating where we are in the culture. Here’s Daly, days later, doubling down on those same points: What I was trying to say in that interview, when the question was asked about the younger generation, is you can’t deny the stats. So when you’re looking at that and they’re saying 65 to 70 percent of those under 40 or 35 — I can’t remember exactly — support same-sex marriage, if that does not change within that community as they become 50 and 60, yeah it’s over. And here’s Daly yesterday, responding to World Vision U.S.’s statement that it “made a mistake” and would be reversing its decision to hire gay, married Christians: Read more
Last May, former American Atheists president Ed Buckner visited a state park in Georgia and found a Bible in his rented cabin. That wouldn’t be unusual in a privately-owned hotel… but a state park?! It’s not that the Bible was “offensive.” It’s just that, on principle, it shouldn’t have been there. It suggested government endorsement of Christianity. At the time, park officials removed the Bibles from the cabins, but Governor Nathan Deal quickly put them right back in because he (wrongly) believed they were legal: Read more
Internet celebrity Zach Anner has already produced a number of videos in which he learns about various religious beliefs and he recently visited a Sunday Assembly service in Los Angeles: Read more
