May 2, 2013
FFRF Places Full-Page Anti-National Day of Prayer Ad in <em>Washington Post</em>
May 2, 2013
Brave Atheist Students Stop ‘Student-Led’ Graduation Prayers at Kentucky High School
May 2, 2013
Moroccan Atheist in Hiding, Pursued for ‘Shaking Faith’
May 2, 2013
<em>The March of Reason</em>: A Film About Atheists, Science, the Reason Rally, and Reality
May 2, 2013
Well, If It Angers the Pope…
May 1, 2013
Humanistic Jewish Congregation: ‘Don’t Just Pray – Choose to ACT!’
May 1, 2013
No, Christian Post, Mikey Weinstein Was Not Hired by the Pentagon
May 1, 2013
Tomorrow, Atheists Will Protest for Free Expression: We Have to Make Them Care

Tomorrow, a coalition of atheist and secularist groups will hold (mostly) coordinated protests on behalf of the jailed atheist bloggers in Bangladesh. My employer, the Center for Inquiry, is among those leading the effort. I’m writing so that I can convince you to attend one, if you’re near enough to do so, and to share the fact of the protests with everyone in your social networks. Why? Because, yeah, it’s about the bloggers, but it’s not just about the bloggers. Atheists in the U.S., in Canada, in Western Europe — we are by no means everyone’s favorite ideological/”religious” minority. But we, for the most part, enjoy the same liberties and freedoms that everyone else does in our respective countries. Folks might complain about us, write pointed op-eds, rail against our evil secularist incursion into government, or troll us with angry comments and blog posts (oh wait, that last one we do to each other), but we’re okay. We’re still at it. We’re, for the most part, safe. The fellas in Bangladesh, they do what we do, they think similarly to the way we think, and they’re in jail because of it. More who are like them have been threatened with arrest. A newspaper editor who has been an opponent of the government’s was arrested, and they cited his reprinting of quotes from the bloggers as one of his crimes. [Click headline for more…] Read more

May 1, 2013
There’s No Reason Atheists Should Be Excluded in These Cases

Yesterday, the Washington Post’s On Faith section published an article I wrote about how atheists exclusion occurs in the unlikeliest of places, from the memorial for the Boston Bombing victims to the revamped Boy Scouts of America. Even the “Atheist Church” isn’t immune from prejudiced thinking: In all of these instances, kind, well-intentioned atheists were excluded on the basis of their beliefs, by people who often claim their faith makes them more moral, more noble, and more generous than those who don’t possess it. Indeed, we are finding that faith is not a virtue. If it were, you would not see atheists being banned from an interfaith (or, to phrase it more accurately, interthought) event meant to honor people of all backgrounds and beliefs. You would not see atheists kicked out of the Boy Scouts of America when scouting organizations around the world (not to mention the Girl Scouts of the USA) have accepted atheists in their ranks without a problem. And I doubt you would see church groups renege on their contract at the last second if they were dealing with another religious group. You can read the entire piece here. Please comment there if you have anything to say! Read more

May 1, 2013
Memo to Scott Stantis: Tim Tebow Is No Jason Collins
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