Recently, the San Diego Coalition of Reason put up a billboard intended to respond to the Christians who say they have a “personal relationship with Jesus”: A bunch of members of the coalition groups gathered over the weekend to take a photo underneath that billboard: Read more
Just days after Megan Phelps-Roper and sister Grace announced that they had left Westboro Baptist Church (founded by their grandfather Fred Phelps), photographer Adam Bouska’s NOH8 campaign released an image featuring former WBC member Lauren Drain: Read more
A couple of weeks ago, I posted images from the Powerpoint presentations of Pastor Will Coats of Newberry Christian Ministries (in South Carolina) as he spoke about the problems with homosexuality. He just gave the third sermon in the series and it looks like he’s trying to be Internet savvy. He didn’t post the Powerpoint slides online like he did last time. Instead, he just posted a video of the images… and had them flash by really quickly so that no one could just swipe random pictures to make him look bad. Looks like Pastor Coats never heard of screenshots. Read more
For the first time in more than 600 years, a Pope is retiring before death. Who knew the big story coming out of the Vatican today would involve old age?! Read more
A group of Christian students (and their parents) from Sullivan High School in Sullivan, IN don’t want to go to their own prom… because gay students are allowed to attend. So, yesterday, they gathered at First Christian Church to make plans for an alternative prom that would ban gay students: Read more
Reader Brian sent along this video of atheist Austin Dacey’s opening statement from a debate against Christian apologist William Lane Craig at Purdue University in 2004. He called it “the most powerful ‘cumulative case’ for atheism that I’ve seen presented online”: Read more
Richard Dawkins recently lamented about the Ken Ham-esque rebuttal to evolution which asks, “If we are descended from ______, how come there are still ______?” And then the hilarious responses started coming his way…: Read more
Oklahoma, according to Seth Andrews, is known for two things: tornadoes and churches, and the tornadoes are easier to escape. Born into a family of six children, he was raised by devoutly religious parents who lived and taught a literal Bible. It was a life packed with religious discussion and debate—but never questions or doubts. In his new book, Deconverted: A Journey from Religion to Reason, he talks about those first doubts and takes readers on a deeply personal journey of coming out. He has shared much of that journey on his website, TheThinkingAtheist.com, which he created as his response to his own “childhood indoctrination, the overwhelming wave of religious messages in our society, and the countless throngs who make ridiculous claims and dismiss skeptical voices with warnings of eternal torture.” One of the missions of American Atheist is to be a handbook of how to come out as a non-believer, how to show someone else the way out, and how to live with the atheist stigma while working to eliminate it from public life. Seth’s story is a valuable page in the handbook. Read more
Last week, the San Diego Coalition of Reason unveiled their latest billboard — and a few years earlier, they had one with this design: Read more
