Just a day after the Christian group World Changers of Florida, Inc. left Bibles for high school students in two school districts, atheist groups that have pushed back are getting results of their own: Read more
At the University of Toronto, the Newman Centre is the gathering place for a lot of straight and gay Catholic students. At least, it was… until a chapter of the group Courage was invited to hold events in the building. Read more
Why, oh why, are people still asking Pat Robertson for advice? He’s either going senile or just plain mean. Or somewhere in between. I am going to call it “Mean-ile.” (Trademarked.) It’s no secret that Robertson doesn’t think a whole lot of women in general, so when a 17-year-old kid writes into the 700 Club because his parents seem to be having marital problems, you know we’re in for a treat: Read more
Turns out President Obama did something else meaningful today: He signed a Presidential Proclamation declaring it Religious Freedom Day — and he didn’t forget to include non-religious Americans in the mix: Read more
The West Brook High School Secular Student Alliance (in Texas) has its first meeting this Thursday, and the leaders are advertising by making sure everyone knows some important terminology: Mmmm… sacrilicious 🙂 Read more
There’s a Hindu blogger on Patheos who goes by the name Ambaa. Interestingly enough, she’s white. Read more
There’s an online clothing store called Nasty Gal that sells “unapologetically sexy” fashions for women. It was brought to my attention recently because they sell articles of clothing with crosses on them. (No, really. That’s why.) They sell tops with regular crosses, see-through crosses, and upside-down crosses; skirts with multiple crosses; boots with crosses on the sides… there are at least 3983232 forms of blasphemy all over the website (which I’m sure is what everyone cares about). Some (possibly NSFW) images of these designs are below: Read more
On Monday, the Florida Family Association paid for a banner reading “Not Born This Way” to be flown over the stadium where a Lady Gaga concert was taking place: Read more
My friend Zack Kopplin, who has led the charge against the teaching of Creationism in Louisiana ever since he was in high school, is the subject of a glowing profile at io9: Read more
Deborah Mitchell has two children and neither of them was raised with religion. In a CNN iReport article that’s generating all sorts of pageviews, she explains why she did it. Here’s just one of the reasons: Read more
