Notorious campus preacher Brother Jed Smock visited the University of Illinois yesterday and the Illini Secular Student Alliance was ready for him. They handed out BINGO cards to passers-by who had to endure Jed’s blather and offered prizes to the winners 🙂 I like JT Eberhard’s take on it: There will be those who say that mocking him makes us look bad. They’ll insist that we should disagree respectfully. I say hogwash. If you treat outlandishly silly things as anything… Read more
“Personally I think it’s a slap in the face to our Christian heritage… our nation and… our state of Oklahoma,” she comments. “We are a conservative state, and I think that something like this is meant to be provocative, and it’s insulting to me.” … “We don’t go to other countries or other places and demand that they be so accommodating. I don’t think that we should feel like we have to be,” she offers. That’s Toni Calvey, a delegate… Read more
Seth Andrews (The Thinking Atheist) talks about what he wants in a president: I guess that’s his way of telling us he’s never voting in another election ever again… Read more
Last month, Humanists in Northeast Mississippi tried to raise money to buy air conditioners for the 100+ people waiting in line for an air conditioner unit. They didn’t get a lot of support at first, but I’m thrilled to report there’s a happy ending to the story: … we had zero luck getting any local help. Everybody claimed it was a great thing to do but nobody had any real desire to do the work. It seems people around here… Read more
Ah, victim blaming. The age-old technique to allow rapists and molesters to shirk off responsibility for their actions. We hear a lot of this in regards to cases of “legitimate rape” (as it is so sweetly referred to by old idiotic men) when the woman was clearly asking for it… You know how it sounds: “Did you see how short her skirt was? She totally wanted it” or “I could literally see her whole arm. What did she expect, wearing a tank-top… Read more
Chris Stedman raises some excellent points about how atheists with large forums (via books and blogs) have done relatively little to speak up on behalf of Muslims in our country. He’s not saying we should stop criticizing their false beliefs — Stedman has no big problem with that. But when a shooting occurs at a Sikh temple or Muslims aren’t allowed to build mosques in the same way Christians build churches, why does it seems like we’re nowhere to be… Read more
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First, let me apologize for that terrible, terrible pun in the title. I am, of course, drawing attention to the ejection of two attendees from the Republican National Convention for throwing nuts at a black CNN camerawoman. According to witnesses, the individuals told her “this is how we feed animals” as they threw the nuts. Needless to say this kind of disgraceful behavior was quickly condemned by the convention organizers and rightly so. After ejecting the pair, organizers said: Their conduct… Read more
Dammit! Time to drown my American Atheists membership card in a vat of fancy ketchup… (via Toothpaste for Dinner) Read more
What’s even more shocking is that it has no affiliation with the Creation Museum or the Ark Encounter theme park (though Ken Ham is one of the “living inductees”): “We honor these people, not because we believe everything they say, but because they made critical contributions to creation science and to the explanation of the Genesis story,” [secretary/treasurer Terry] Hurlbut said. “In Ken Ham’s case, he popularized it and brought it to the masses.” … He estimates the organization will… Read more
It’s hard to top the Reason Rally as far as getting atheists to come together and getting media attention, but the National Atheist Party wanted to replicate that feat by holding their own convention. Yesterday, though, president Troy Boyle announced that it would be canceled due to lack of support and funding: NAPCON 2012 was supposed to be our biggest and best public event; our chance to show the U.S. that we could fund and organize a large, noteworthy and… Read more
