Susan Griffiths died yesterday. She died by drinking poison that knocked her out, put her in a coma, and slowly killed her… all without pain. It was her choice to drink the mixture. It was either that or eventually succumbing to a painful, debilitating brain disease. In her Winnipeg home, they wouldn’t allow her to die on her own terms, so she had to fly to Switzerland to end her life. Lindor Reynolds captured her story beautifully in this article (and accompanying video). Griffiths, an atheist, really was an incredible woman. [Click headline for more…] Read more
Bryan Fischer thinks that “we” (Christians? White guys? D-bags? Who knows) need to reclaim the word discrimination: So why does the American Family Association spokesman feel that way? [Click headline for more…] Read more
Atheists were excluded from last week’s “interfaith” service for the victims of the Boston bombing, as if we had no one to mourn or no stake in the matter, and despite the fact that Boston is home to a large non-religious population. It’s likely that decision was made without ill intent but it’s not because we didn’t make an effort to be included. Governor Deval Patrick and Melissa Rogers (Director of the White House’s Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships) need to know that we’re not taking this snub lightly. [Click headline for more…] Read more
The little girl is wise beyond her years… and the ending cracked me up 🙂 There’s a worry that some atheist parents won’t teach their children about religious beliefs at all, but this video offers a different approach: Just teach your children all the beliefs! Who needs fairy tales when there are so many holy books just lying around? (via WhitneyAvalon — Thanks to ihedenius for the link!) Read more
Jen Hancock, the author of the Handy Humanism Handbook, is working on a project called “Humanist Learning Systems” in which she will teach a number of online courses about applied Humanism, so to speak. The first course is “Living Made Simpler” and it begins May 1st. [Click headline for more…] Read more
In this video below, Edward describes how his pastor had a heart attack and then accused him of being a cause of it: Be sure to check out Edward’s YouTube and Facebook pages! [Link to video] Read more
Guess what? (Are you sitting for this?) Not all parents who homeschool their children are Christian. (I’ll give you a minute to digest that.) It’s true! There are a lot of atheist parents who homeschool their children (for any number of reasons) but there’s a major problem with that: A lot of the material made for homeschooled kids is written from a Young Earth Creationist, the-Bible-must-be-true perspective, such as books from A Beka or BJU Press. KellyAnne Kitchin and Jenn Gauthier have both dealt with that situation in their own lives and they want to make things easier for other parents like them. It’s true that secular textbook writers are out there, but their books can be expensive and, to quote KellyAnne, “used copies often command a much higher price” than used Christian textbooks. [Click headline for more…] Read more
On Reddit and the atheist blogosphere, this image was circulating last week: It’s supposedly a fourth grade science test from a private school a South Carolina. But we don’t exactly know which school because the submitter wouldn’t say. He said he got the quiz from his friend whose daughter attends the school and they’d like to keep that information under wraps (for the sake of the daughter) until the year ends. [Click headline for more…] Read more
The Atlantic’s Graeme Wood recently visited Sam Harris to fight him using Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ). I won’t say who wins, but this paragraph was just eye-opening: [Click headline for more…] Read more
