Alber Saber, the Egyptian blogger and activist convicted of blasphemy, has had his appeal denied. Saber was sentenced to three years in prison in December for “contempt of the Muslim and Christian religions.” Read more
Sorry about the title… I’ve just never dubbed an “apocalypse” before and I saw an opening and went for it! Okay, if you didn’t read this post, here’s a quick catch-up: Read more
A bunch of high school students from Colorado just did something risky while reciting the Pledge of Allegiance… and it had nothing to do with “Under God”: Read more
Jerry Jenkins is one of the authors of the ridiculously-popular Left Behind series, and he now wants to help other authors self-publish their work… Read more
The Freedom From Religion Foundation’s Dan Barker recently accepted an invite to do a debate in Minnesota against a Catholic theologian as part of the “Argument Of The Month Club,” a forum for Catholic men. They covered his expenses and the debate was set for February 12th. As Dan was looking at the group’s event page for the debate the other day, he noticed something weird: Read more
The San Diego Coalition of Reason just put up their last billboard and, based on your comments, you all love it: A local news channel has already reported on the message: Read more
Pamela Geller (the reviled-for-good-reason critic of Islam and Muslim extremism) along with her American Freedom Defense Initiative are trying to put up a bus ad of their own in Detroit, a city home to hundreds of thousands of Muslims. And she’s modeling it after the Detroit CoR’s ad: Read more
Physicist Lawrence Krauss, who recently suggested that math and science teachers ought to get paid more than other teachers, is back to talk about something many more of you may agree with: We should not validate ignorance in the classroom: … Somehow saying that, well, anything goes, we shouldn’t offend religious beliefs by requiring kids to know — to understand reality; that’s child abuse. And if you think about it, teaching kids — or allowing the notion that the earth… Read more
