Syracuse’s student newspaper, The Daily Orange, has been running a four-part series on the spiritual lives of students at the university, introducing readers to the way different people on campus think. Their last part, focusing on atheists, just got published: Read more
After the incredible success of the “atheist church” (officially the “Sunday Assembly”) in London, a lot of people are wondering how they can get their own version started. So the comedians who started it, Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans, have come up with rough guidelines for how to spread the services… plus, there’s the video below: Read more
Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has announced that his eldest son, Antonio, will attend a Catholic state school in London. The school has a history of educating the children of politicians, including those of former Labour cabinet ministers Harriet Harman and Ruth Kelly, and former Prime Minister Tony Blair, all of whom sent their sons there. Read more
If you’re in Winston-Salem, North Carolina this weekend, you’re in luck: The Child Evangelism Fellowship’s Children’s Good News Spectacular is coming to town: There’s no problem with them gathering itself — they have a right to do it — but CEF is the group that has been starting Good News Clubs in elementary schools nationwide in an effort to proselytize to kids who aren’t old enough to know better. So a group of atheists are going to protest against them this Saturday: Read more
What happens when a teacher preaches in the classroom, saying the Bible is the basis for the Constitution and evolution is evil? Well, if you’re smart, you let the Freedom From Religion Foundation know about it. That’s exactly what one family did. Their child attends Wynnewood Middle School in Oklahoma and the Social Studies teacher, Betty Carter, was stepping far outside the bounds of what’s appropriate to say in the classroom. Here’s FFRF’s Andrew Seidel (PDF), in a letter to the district’s superintendent, Raymond Cole: Read more
Starting today, the newly-formed South Texas Coalition of Reason will sponsor two billboards reading, “Don’t believe in God? You are not alone.” Read more
“Call of Duty,” “Ghost Recon,” “Band of Brothers,” and a long list of other video games glorify warfare and put players in the position of killing and laying out destruction. Putting aside for a moment the ethical implications of that, let’s ask who’s left out? The Chaplains, of course. So now, the Army has contracted the company Engineering and Computer Simulations to tackle the task of including the chaplain perspective in warfare video games: Read more
A Spanish version of Richard Dawkins’ website is now available! You can check out an introductory message from Señor Dawkins himself right here. Read more
