Pastor Steven Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona is back with another one of his offensive, misogynistic sermons! (His sermon about how his wife cooks for him was incredibly popular, but this one is bound to be on the Greatest Hits album.) The subject: How good it is to be old-fashioned. Just as before, highlights are below, because I watched the whole damn thing… Read more
Last week, actor/comedian Eddie Izzard accepted the 2013 Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism from the Humanist Community at Harvard, American Humanist Association, and Harvard Community of Humanists, Atheists, and Agnostics. Video of his acceptance speech is now available online (Izzard appears around the 12:00 mark; the Q&A portion begins at 48:57): Read more
Lars Hedegaard, head of the Danish Free Press Society, was nearly the victim of an assassination attempt a few weeks ago. When the accusations about who tried to kill him began flying, Muslims extremists were at the top of the list. Hedegaard had made many remarks against Islam (many of them admittedly unfair and despicable) and, in a country where a newspaper’s cartoons featuring the Prophet Mohammad led to worldwide riots, they weren’t exactly unwarranted accusations. Read more
Mike Hoey thinks entrepreneurs should really capitalize on products for the religious masses: Read more
A video resurfaced this week of Christian evangelist and missionary Franklin Graham, son of the equally notorious (though possible co-opted) Billy Graham, being interviewed in November about his thoughts on marriage equality. As the battle for marriage rights heats up in states like Illinois, it might be worth revisiting some of the most common arguments against equality. Watch the video below: Read more
In Emily Bazelon’s new book Sticks and Stones, she writes about the issue of bullying, why it’s a big deal now more than ever before, what bullying is and isn’t, etc. Read more
Texas state Rep. Phil Stephenson knows his priorities: Economy? Nah. Ending the wars? Forget it. Jesus? Of course! Stephenson filed a resolution on Monday that would push God and the Ten Commandments into the state’s public schools: Read more
When the Vatican established Pope Benedict XVI’s Twitter account as @Pontifex (rather than @BennyRatz or something more Ratzinger-specific) I thought it was a smart move. Individual popes come and go, but the office remains, and it remains relevant to his millions of followers, Catholic and non-Catholic alike. I envisioned a Twitter feed that would pass from pontiff to pontiff until some other networking tool inevitably pushed his tweets off the Internet’s collective radar. Read more
Just as American Atheists’ Dave Silverman works on a strategy session with Lucy, Mr. (O’)Deity comes along and interrupts… Read more
