It will come as a surprise to precisely no one currently reading this that Bryan Fischer, spokesman for the American Family Association, has something offensive and dumb to say about recently-out-of-the-closet NBA player Jason Collins. Collins made history yesterday by becoming the first active athlete in a major (male) American sport to come out as gay. It seems as if Collins is going into this thing with eyes wide open. He know’s what he’s in for from the intolerant idiots out there. And the Christian Right is doing exactly what you might expect. [Click headline for more…] Read more
Back in January, World Changers of Florida, Inc. held a Bible distribution at a number of high schools in Orange County. How was that legal? Well, the rules were that the Bibles would just be placed on a table, no student would be forced to take one, and no representatives from the group would be talking with students. Daniel Koster, a student at Wekiva High School, posted about the distribution on this site. Now, in response to that giveaway, the Central Florida Freethought Community is hosting one of their own — they will be distributing non-tracts from the Freedom From Religion Foundation this Thursday: [Click headline for more…] Read more
Preacher John Chisham recently came to St. Cloud State University to preach against homosexuality and loose women and whatever other things appear on those Bingo cards. But students were ready with a response: [Click headline for more…] Read more
Daniel Dennett’s latest book Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking will be published next week, so the New York Times spoke with him… as he sailed: [Click headline for more…] Read more
Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss, stars of the new documentary The Unbelievers, recently appeared on Global News’ “The Morning Show” to talk about the movie. The interview was much longer than the duo’s recent appearance on CNN (and much more intelligent, too): [Click headline for more…] Read more
Robert Peoples is the CEO of Affinis Apparel (pronounced uh-FIN-is) — a clothing company promoting human rights and freethinking through urban indie fashion. Undoubtedly, Robert has been an atheist for more than half of his life, an aspect he concealed from family and friends until recent years. His childhood rearing was geared toward a Christian (specifically Baptist) upbringing in central New Jersey. Although Robert’s mother was involved in the church, her perspective was not a fundamentalist position. Like his mother, Robert believed during his adolescent years that Jesus Christ was his Lord and personal savior and did not condemn others for possessing alternative views about “God.” Robert remembers saying as an adolescent: “I know what the preacher says about homosexuality [and other worldviews], but some of my closest friends are lesbian, gay, Muslim, and atheist, and guess what? They are human beings with love just like me.” [Click headline for more…] Read more
The Oklahoma Freethought Convention is taking place on June 22nd at the Cox Convention Center and if you’re able to attend, you’re probably going to sign up after you watch The Thinking Atheist’s promo video: An event like this takes a lot of time, effort, and money to run smoothly, so if you’d like to donate something to help defray the organizers’ costs, you can do that here. Tickets for the event are $20 for the next two weeks and you can see the roster of speakers here. Read more
Earlier today, ESPN The Magazine writer Chris Broussard went on air to talk about NBA player Jason Collins’ announcing that he’s gay and he made a fool of himself by talking about how he’s a Christian and therefore against it: Love the last line from LZ Granderson 🙂 The statement from Broussard wasn’t surprising, though… [Click headline for more…] Read more
In March of last year, I had the privilege of speaking at the Reason Rally in Washington, DC in front of approximately 20,000 people. In ten years of being a part of this movement, it was the most memorable event I’ve ever been a part of. My speech from that event is reprinted in the current issue of American Atheist magazine, so I wanted to share the spread and post a transcript of my talk below: [Click headline for more…] Read more
Daniel Dennett once called evolution the “single best idea anyone has ever had.” It was so revolutionary in what it explained and how simply it could explain it that Charles Darwin’s legacy was cemented the moment his name became synonymous with the idea. Each year, the Tribeca Film Festival awards people who have similarly pushed the boundaries in their respective fields — what they call “disruptive innovation.” And this year, the Charles Darwin prize went to… Glenn Beck: [Click headline for more…] Read more
