Although she’s very young, Ania Bula has dealt with Psoriatic Arthritis and Crohn’s Disease. With those illnesses come a host of people who think they have a quick cure: Read more
Richard Dawkins’ next book was projected for release in the fall of 2014, but it appears that those reports were off by about a full year: Read more
Muslims kill Jews and the Jews murder Muslims, Sunnis kill Shiites, then die by the dozens, Christian explosions make Irish ears ring: These are a few of my sickening things… Read more
The Secular Coalition for America, in an effort to be a hub for its coalition members and a place people can go to find news about the non-theistic world, is acquiring the website Secular News Daily. In a letter to readers, co-creator of SND Mike Daniels explained the reason for the passing of the torch: Read more
The South Texas Coalition of Reason’s message on a new atheist billboard in Corpus Christi is pretty clear regarding the group’s stance on God: “Don’t believe in God?” Sounds like an atheist to me. Sure, the South Texas CoR is reaching out to atheists, agnostics, and those who are spiritual-but-not-religious, but the implication on the sign, anyway, is that God doesn’t exist. Which makes this front-page headline in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times very strange to me: Read more
A florist in Richland, Washington says she won’t provide flowers for a gay customer’s wedding because of her relationship with Jesus: Rob Ingersoll has been a customer at Arlene’s Flowers for nine years. When he and his partner Curt got engaged recently, he knew he’d ask Barronelle Stuzman, their favorite florist and the owner of Arlene’s, to prepare the flowers for the wedding. He wasn’t ready for her to shoot him down: Read more
I understand why a headline for the South Texas Coalition of Reason’s new atheist billboard in Corpus Christi would say “Atheist Billboard Stirs Controversy”… more people are going to pay attention to a religion-based controversy. But it’s still shocking to hear a pastor (and another random dude) express their dissent against a message like that one: Read more
Is there any real reason to oppose marriage equality? A new analysis of data by (Democratic pollster) Joel Benenson and (Republican pollster) Jan van Lohuizen finds that most of the people who oppose it fall into only a few demographic groups: Read more
