Dave Silverman appeared on The Alyona Show (with substitute host Abby Martin) Wednesday night to talk about the state of atheism in America. It’s a long segment with time for some substantive discussion — pretty unusual for television news airing in America. Read more
I’ve posted frequently about Atheists Helping the Homeless, the group from Austin, Texas that has helped over 1,500 homeless people in the area. I’m happy to announce that they’re expanding! Now, there’s a Dallas/Ft. Worth chapter. Their first event is June 3rd at 9:00a and it’d be great to have a large group assembled to help those less fortunate. If you’re not in the DFW area but would like to help out somehow, you can always contribute a little something… Read more
Pastors in Georgia have a brilliant idea for fixing the school system in the city of Columbus: Ignore federal law and institute school prayer. [Paul] Voorhees, a local business owner and chaplain says, “We are not asking them to do anything other than give us their blessing and get it on a state ballot, we would like the people of the state of Georgia to vote if they want bible study and prayer in our schools.” Voorhees is leading what… Read more
Harrison Hopkins is a rising sophomore at Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina. At the end of his senior year of high school, he challenged the prayer at his graduation and won. He was down in Columbia recently and met up with A Matter of Doubt podcast and did an interview detailing his own deconversion and the story of how he challenged the school district. I think it’s a great interview to listen to, especially for some high schoolers out… Read more
Marc Murphy of the Courier-Journal (Kentucky) says a lot with one image: (Thanks to Aaron for the link!) Read more
Penn Jillette is coming to East Lansing, Michigan on June 6th to promote the paperback version of his book God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales and CFI-Michigan is sponsoring the event. If you’d like tickets, get them while you can! Read more
Somehow, Charles Worley, the pastor who wants to put all gay people inside of electrified fences, has followers. One of them, Stacey Pritchard, attempted to defend her pastor’s comments on CNN last night. Anderson Cooper threw her softball after softball and she completely whiffed on every single one of them. This is seriously mind-boggling to listen to: Blogger John Shore has a very calm-but-frustrated take on the whole video. He tries really hard to understand where people like her are… Read more
When I saw the headline “Wanted: Bigfoot hair samples for European study,” I assumed that this was either a wild distortion of an actually serious study or the goal of some fringe professor. Both kinds of stories regularly find themselves in the “Science” section of mainstream news sites far more often than they should. As I researched further, however, I found myself in the odd situation of being slightly alarmed that the various sources echoing the news had not distorted… Read more
