Cecil Bothwell, an atheist politician from Asheville, North Carolina, is running for Congress and he’s doing an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit right now! Read more
You would think The Lord Almighty would be a little busy, but with the release of his new book, The Last Testament: A Memoir — written with the help of former Executive Producer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart David Javerbaum — he’s doing something of a publicity tour. Wouldn’t you know it, he was all too eager to talk with an atheist… Our interview is below: Does your writing this memoir singlehandedly destroy the arguments for atheism? (Or… Read more
***Edit***: The is a repost from earlier in the week, but with a working image! … The Student Voice, a “bi-weekly student-run magazine at Syracuse University,” has a great cover for their latest issue: As I write this, the actual article isn’t available online, but I hope it will be soon… (via @SecularStudents) Read more
Ethan Brown is only 12, but his ability to do tricks using mental math is incredible. At last week’s Skepticamp in New Hampshire, Ethan created a 4 x 4 magic square after audience members filled in some of the boxes for him at random. And he even found a way to get the columns and rows to add up to an appropriate number for that particular audience 🙂 When I watched that, I was thinking he’s like a younger Art… Read more
Maybe you can help me figure this out… A few months ago, I promoted a contest at GiveBack.org that gave $50,000 to the first place winner. An atheist named Chris McCoy asked other users on Reddit to vote for him and he quickly took over the top spot, eventually winning the money. One of the reasons I was so excited to support him was because he said a big chunk of the prize money was going to go to secular… Read more
The terminology war aside, why are Humanist chaplains in the military so necessary? (And why do we even have military chaplains in the first place?) Jason Torpy, president of the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers, appeared on The Alyona Show (airing on the network formerly known as Russia Today, with host Alyona Minkovski) to answer those questions: In short, the military’s not going to get rid of chaplains anytime soon — that’s a separate battle and one we’re not… Read more
“Tebowing”, named after Christian NFL quarterback Tim Tebow, occurs when you “get down on a knee and start praying, even if everyone else around you is doing something completely different.” In other words, it’s when you go into your bubble while everyone else lives in reality. Unfortunately, the trend is becoming more popular… … but it just looks to me like they’re facepalming. (Or maybe that’s just what I’m doing in response.) Seems appropriate. Read more
Can God create a math problem so hard that even He can’t solve it? Let’s find out. … And I love this equation the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s Dan Barker sent to Jerry Coyne (almost as an afterthought) in an email about religious accommodation and why science and religion are not compatible: Here’s an equation: Religion + Good Works = Good Works Solve for Religion. Subtract Good Works… carry the one… Ahhhhhhhh. I see what he did there 🙂 Read more
Thunderf00t and the religiousantagonist are collaborating again! The premise: Jesus visits a Christian book store and he wants a job! But didn’t the Bible say something about not turning the Father’s house into a marketplace…? I’m surprised the bookstore was his first choice. You would think an out-of-work Jesus would try to get a job as a pastor… Read more
