You’ve heard of Dr. Darrel Ray, right? Author, speaker, psychologist, and founder of “Recovering from Religion” (R|R), an organization that helps people transition from a religious lifestyle into a secular one. Well, Darrel has begun another project with R|R and it’s something that many of us will find an invaluable resource. This new endeavor, called the Therapist Project, will be a registry of secular mental health professionals; it aims to provide people with resources that use proven, state of the… Read more
Love it 🙂 Especially the last line. CCOKC – Child Celebrities Opposing Kirk Cameron – watch more funny videos In case you missed it, Kirk Cameron made all sorts of anti-gay remarks on CNN… because, you know, he was trying to point out what a good Christian he is. (Thanks to Richard for the link!) Read more
Roger Ebert writes about death so poetically. (With no mention of an afterlife because you don’t get one.) And now my friend’s wife and the newspaperman have both passed away. Early one morning, unable to sleep, I roamed my memories of them. Of an endless series of dinners, and brunches, and poker games, and jokes, and gossip. On and on, year after year. I remember them. They exist in my mind — in countless minds. But in a century the… Read more
Never one to disappoint, former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain expressed a few words yesterday on Fox News that almost defy belief. Almost. We know he has a special place in his heart for the opposite gender… which is probably in the kitchen portion. He was asked why, in a Washington Post-ABC News poll, the public felt President Obama addressed women’s issues better than Mitt Romney while men preferred Romney over Obama among men. Good ol’ Cain had this to… Read more
May 25th is when students from Georgia’s Southwest DeKalb High School will have their graduation ceremony. In order to accommodate al the students and their families, the event will take place at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, the home of sex-scandal-ed pastor Eddie Long. 16-year-old Nahkoura Mahnassi and her mother want no part of that — it’s bad enough who the pastor is, but they don’t believe the ceremony should be taking place at a church: Nahkoura Mahnassi, 16, and… Read more
Cathy Samford is a middle school science teacher and volleyball coach. She’s also in a longterm relationship — engaged — and planned to get married last summer, but there were some delays and the wedding didn’t happen as scheduled… Anyway, she’s about to give birth to a child. So her school fired her. “We had the feeling that because kids on her volleyball team and kids in her classes knew she was pregnant, it really wouldn’t have changed anything,” the… Read more
I’m only sharing this to show the kind of bullshit that Jessica Ahlquist still has to deal with: The cops will not watch you forever. We will get you good. Tell your little asshole sister to watch her back. There are many of us, “Crusaders,” we have a better pool going to see who gets you first! Your fuckin old man better move or keep you locked up if you know whats good for you. We know where he works,… Read more
Over the weekend, an atheist sign was stolen in Streator, IL: The Freedom From Religion Foundation offered a $1,500 reward for the capture of the perpetrators, but no one has been caught just yet… In the meantime, FFRF has put up another sign in the same location. This time, though, there’s a message for anyone thinking of taking it: The replacement banner features a new message to “sinful” Christians “P.S. your god says, ‘thou shalt not steal.'” … “We are… Read more
This Saturday, I’ll be giving a talk at the North Texas Secular Student Convention in Frisco. Other speakers include David Fitzgerald, Damon Fowler, LGBT activist Dorian Mooneyham, Sam Singleton, Matt Dillahunty, and JT Eberhard. Could use some more women, but for a student run event, that’s a pretty strong lineup. The tickets are cheap (and free for Secular Student Alliance members). So come! And then tell me what the heck a vegetarian can eat in Texas. Read more
Foundation Beyond Belief has released its numbers for Quarter 1, 2012 and they are incredible: Atheist members donated over $40,000 to five different organizations (as well as the FBB itself) during the first three months of the year: Our members also supported the work of the Foundation itself through a voluntary distribution totaling $4,485 for the quarter. We are grateful for this generous support. Donors also contributed $220 in the final weeks of our Humanist Crisis Response drive for famine… Read more
