The video below, part of The Atheist Voice series, answers the question: What did we learn from the recent study of atheists and Christians on Twitter? More posts about the Twitter study are 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
Rapper Reyshizz is working independently to put out an album called “Transcend” and the first single is the song “Atheist”: [Click headline for more…] Read more
DarkMatter2525 takes a swipe at Texas Governor Rick Perry’s recent signing of the “Merry Christmas Law”, which allows teachers and students in public schools to say Merry Christmas… something that was already perfectly legal. At the signing, Perry added: “Religious freedom does not mean freedom from religion.” (Thanks to Ed for the link!) Read more
Over the weekend, the third annual Robert G. Ingersoll Oratory Contest was held in Washington, D.C. Competitors recite excerpts from the Great Agnostic’s speeches and a panel of judges vote on the best speakers — who receive hundreds of dollars in prizes. I’m thrilled to say that this year’s winner was Sarah Henry, a high-schooler from Indiana, a camper at Camp Quest Ohio, and a contributor to this site: [Click headline for more…] Read more
If you haven’t heard yet, one-time Presidential hopeful and long-time frothy mixture Rick Santorum is now the CEO of EchoLight Studios, “a faith-based film company.” Fred Clark summarizes what the company is: [Click headline for more…] Read more
We know the percentage of people who are non-religious (although some of them might be “spiritual”) is on the rise, and has been for a number of years now, as indicated in this graphic by NPR’s Matt Stiles: The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, knowing the trends, asked people if they thought the rise of the “Nones” was a good thing. Specifically, they asked (PDF): Please tell me if you think each of the following trends is generally a good thing for American society, a bad thing for American society, or doesn’t make much difference? [Item C] More people who are not religious Turns out people aren’t thrilled about it: [Click headline for more…] Read more
Frederic C. Rich had written a fascinating new novel in which he considers what would have happened if Barack Obama had lost the 2008 election, leaving our country in the hands of John McCain and, eventually, Sarah Palin. And then we suffer another terrorist attack (7/22) As you might expect, there’s chaos everywhere, for a number of reasons. The book is called Christian Nation: A Novel: An excerpt from the book is below — and keep reading for your chance to win a copy of the book: [Click headline for more…] Read more
Tom Hoopes, former editor of the National Catholic Register, has an embarrassingly ignorant piece up at the Catholic Voice in which he “rebuts” the atheist monument now up in front of the Bradford County Courthouse: Let’s go through Hoopes’ “10 awkward facts about the atheist monument”: [Click headline for more…] Read more
When pastor Robert Dekker of Lewes, Delaware decided it would be a neat idea to hold weekly church services on the public beach of nearby Rehoboth, the well-informed city manager rejected the plan. Rehoboth Beach may not issue such a permit, the manager wrote to Dekker, because that would run afoul of the Constitution: “I am so sorry to inform you that I cannot grant your request to have church services on the public beach in Rehoboth. I cannot mix Church and State. I trust you understand. Wishing you the very best.” I listened to a couple of radio interviews that the piqued pastor subsequently did (WXDE-FM, Glenn Beck), and his responses are bursting with fork-tongued passive-aggressiveness. For instance, Dekker keeps stressing that he’s not a “mean” or “nasty” person and that he really likes the folks at city hall — apparently forgetting that he’s been distributing a flyer that accuses them of nothing less than tyranny. [Click headline for more…] Read more
The video below, part of The Atheist Voice series, answers the question: Are religious people intellectually inferior to atheists? 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
