The Humanist Graduate Community at Harvard is heading on a trip to Kentucky during Spring Break to do some volunteer work and make the world a better place: Read more
Finally, Pastor Joel Osteen has said something even atheists can get on board with: You are never more like God than when you help hurting people.— Joel Osteen (@JoelOsteen) March 9, 2013 God, you pain-inflicting bastard, you… (via Moral Compass) Read more
Human rights groups in Kentucky are fighting a proposed bill that would allow people to sidestep anti-discrimination laws if they could justify their actions with “sincerely held religious beliefs.” House Bill 279, sponsored by conservative Democrat Rep. Bob Damron and recently passed in the State Senate, would strengthen a person’s ability to “ignore state regulations or laws that contradict his or her ‘sincerely held’ religious beliefs.” Gay rights groups say this could legalize discrimination against LGBT people on the basis of certain religious beliefs that maintain homosexuality is wrong: Read more
There’s an article up at Yahoo called “7 Celebrity Activists Who Make the World a Better Place” and you’re not going to believe who’s #1 on their list… Jenny McCarthy… Read more
Keeping with the trend of atheists finding community in church-like services that lack the superstition and mythology found in religion, the National Post’s Jen Gerson has a great article on the Calgary Secular Church: After several years living the godless life, [Korey] Peters and his wife, who was raised an Anglican, were at peace with their decision. But they missed the church. They missed the community and the music and the rituals, all the little rites of passage and shared… Read more
In 2011, Sam Harris released a long essay called “Lying.” It was available as a Kindle single, but not as a physical book. Read more
Alvin Marrero-Méndez is an atheist and a cop from Puerto Rico. Those two worlds collided a year ago when he and 40 of his colleagues met up to decide how to handle issues in Carolina (in the northern part of Puerto Rico). It was at that meeting when Commander Guillermo Calixto-Rodríguez asked for a volunteer to lead the group in prayer (PDF): Read more
Two dozen protesters rallied outside a Catholic school board office in Ontario, Canada this week to support a high school student who says she was bullied by a teacher for being gay. Read more
It was last summer when two young atheists tried to put a stop to the Christian prayers being recited at meetings of the Hamilton County Commissioners (in Tennessee) by filing a lawsuit: Read more
