Last week, Sunday Assembly Brighton held its first gathering at St. Andrew’s Church and ITV was there to check it out: Highlight of the video clip comes at the 1:10 mark, when Jesus offers a little girl a sandwich and she completely ignores him. [Click headline for more…] Read more
This is your chance to save lives and help the atheist cause! On Sunday, October 13 many tens of thousands of people will see atheists being not just good, but EXCELLENT! Since its inception in 1985, the annual AIDS Walk Los Angeles has grown into the largest AIDS fundraising event in California and has raised a total of $75 million to support the services provided by AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) and more than 20 other AIDS service organizations in Los Angeles County. It attracts 30,000 participants each year. I will be walking the 10 km route through West Hollywood with the Atheists United team in our bright red t-shirts with the Atheists United name, phone number, and web address. So far, 13 god-free good guys and gals are ready to joyfully join the massive crowds. My personal goal is to raise $1,000, and with the help of three dear friends, it’s already at $200. You can help me reach that goal, help conquer AIDS, and help atheists demolish that annoying stereotype of our being selfish nihilists who don’t care about anything. [Click headline to get to the really good part…] Read more
Maranatha Baptist Bible College in Wisconsin wants you to know that sending your kids to a cheaper public school is a disaster waiting to happen: Yes, secular colleges have a lower price tag. But, what might that decision really cost your family? The cost of sending a young person to a state university will, in many cases, be a life marked by ambivalence toward spiritual things, regrettable lifestyle choices, or a complete disregard of the principles Christian parents had attempted to pass on to their children. Because, as we all know, all secular college are completely devoid of Christian life… [Click headline for more…] Read more
The New Ulm Actors Community Theater in Minnesota was planning to stage a production of “Inherit the Wind” next week, but the classic play about the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial has been postponed indefinitely: The reason? Local Creationists were offended: NUACT originally slated the play as its fall production with [Martin Luther College] student Zach Stowe as director. The play deals with a fictionalized version of the evolution/creationism debate in the 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial.” The play is also a metaphor for criticizing the suppression of free expression under the McCarthyism of the 1950s. The play was not slated to be performed at MLC, but a final audition was scheduled on campus on Friday, Aug. 30. NUACT previously used MLC for auditions, rehearsals and performances. After seeing the poster for the audition, several MLC professors raised objections about the play’s subject to the administration. … “We felt it was not compatible with what [the school] teaches the Bible says about the universe and the world,”? said [MLC’s VP of Student Life Jeffrey] Schone. “This is a ministerial school. People employing our students need confidence about their views.” I love that final line. As if what potential employers seek from these students is not a weakly-held truth but a confidently-held lie. Students won’t be employable if we keep challenging their firmly-held and completely-discredited views! So stop making them think! (Though I guess the statement makes sense, given what pastors say from the pulpit on a regular basis…) [Click headline for more…] Read more
As we know all too well, billboards that even suggest that people don’t believe in God can be offensive to some. Billboards suggesting that people who don’t believe in God are happy might even be worse. But that juxtaposition of godless and joyful is what the Center for Inquiry is offering in its latest major ad campaign: [Click headline for more…] Read more
Canadian radio broadcaster Michael Enright wrote an essay yesterday in which he blasted atheists for not having a sense of humor and talking about it so damn much: It’s not that atheists don’t believe in God. That’s fine. It’s not against the law. Atheism is a coherent system of beliefs arrived at, I am sure, after some very serious and sober consideration. Atheists are not being prosecuted or silenced. They are lovingly tended by media interviewers, me included, and their nuanced arguments are politely acknowledged. The problem to me is that they won’t shut up about it. The public, endless public profession of atheism to me reflects a whiny, whinging self-pitying narcissism. In the last ten years or so, atheism has taken on some of the elements of fundamentalist Christianity. Maybe he doesn’t get it because he’s Canadian. But on the off-chance he’s put more than a second of thought into this, then his ignorance is staggering here. [Click headline for more…] Read more
The video below, part of The Atheist Voice series, discusses how Jessica Ahlquist wasn’t invited to the unveiling of her (former) high school’s new mural after her lawsuit brought down the old one: You can read more details about the story here and 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! Read more
For years, the logo at the top of this website has been an ambigram (reading the same if you rotate it 180 degrees). John Gonzo took notice and passed along this design he made: [Click headline for more…] Read more
