This is only the first of three panels but the last one is more of a sad reality than a hilarious punchline: (via Calamities of Nature) Read more
There’s hardly a week that goes by without Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington, saying something offensive and incendiary; whether it’s giving bad marital advice through his latest book, trashing his definition of “effeminate” worship leaders, or demonizing sex and sexuality by associating pornography with Ted Bundy, this guy tops my Official Douchecanoe List. He delivered again this week, when an ex-member of Mars Hill tentatively shared the horrifying story of his brutal excommunication from the… Read more
House Resolution 535 in Pennsylvania, sponsored by Rep. Rick Saccone (R-obviously), declares: That the House of Representatives declare 2012 as the “Year of the Bible” in Pennsylvania in recognition of both the formative influence of the Bible on our Commonwealth and nation and our national need to study and apply the teachings of the holy scriptures. Right… because we have a “national need” to understand Genesis, genocide, and all the other bullshit in the Bible. Saccone doesn’t even try to… Read more
If you’re the leader of any local or campus freethought group, there’s a discussion group on Facebook that will offer advice and answer any questions for you. A lot of veteran activists are on there, making it a great resource — or perhaps you could pitch in and help some other leaders yourself. (Thanks to Scott for the link!) Read more
Yesterday, Richard Wade got people thinking about how angry people would get at an atheist group’s billboard even if it were completely inoffensive. Well, Katie Hartman of Skepticon is taking the idea one step further. She wants to put up a cute, inoffensive billboard. All she needs are your donations and suggestions. Here’s a template of her idea: We’ve priced billboards in the Springfield area and think it can be done for as little as $2,000 –- and if we… Read more
Hip-hop singer Toby Ganger just released an EP called “Evolutionary” and the title track sounds pretty awesome: Evolutionary by Toby An excerpt from the lyrics: …the other side interested in scaring the rest of us here with a message of fear so todays questions appear through the lens of yesterday’s perception of fair and the prejudice clear whenever they’re debating on who gets to be married always saying to protect the kids really they’re afraid we’ll reject their myths The… Read more
So, this happened. That’s kicker Jake Russell of the Ohio State Buckeyes. His bio says that he’s a freshman. When I first came to college, I was still extremely religious, having grown up in an almost exclusively Catholic environment. Meeting people with radically different worldviews was a shock. But it takes a special kind of person, even assuming that sort of background, to wish hate on someone else. Then again, if you ask Jessica Ahlquist, maybe folks like Russell aren’t… Read more
Dennis Kruse, the same Indiana State Senator who wants public school students to recite the Lord’s Prayer at the beginning of every day, is now sponsoring a bill that would promote Creationism in science class… and he’s getting much farther than he should be: The Senate Education Committee voted 8-2 in favor of the bill despite experts and some senators saying teaching creationism likely would be ruled unconstitutional if challenged in court. According to an article from the Associated Press,… Read more
The New York Times’ Abby Goodnough has a summary of Jessica Ahlquist’s lawsuit in Friday’s paper and Jessica comes out of it looking exactly like the hero she is. (Her opponents, not so much.) Atheists don’t always get positive coverage in the media, so it’s an encouraging sign, especially after everything Jessica’s been going through: She is 16, the daughter of a firefighter and a nurse, a self-proclaimed nerd who loves Harry Potter and Facebook. But Jessica Ahlquist is also… Read more
