Hmm… they’ve made a documentary about atheists. Our secrets are out! Definitely NSFW… (Thanks to Stephanie for the link!) Read more
Note: Letter writers’ names are changed to protect their privacy. Dear Richard, I am a lifelong atheist in my mid-twenties. I have always been in favor of respectful interfaith dialogue. My idea of what “respect” looks like has changed somewhat since high school, as I have learned more about the scary things that some religious people actually believe and actually do in the name of their deities. I think it’s valuable to debate religious beliefs with believers, generally with the… Read more
The Catholic League/Bill Donohue hasn’t been getting enough attention lately, so he issued a press release full of lies so he could get back into the spotlight. The miraculous rescue of all 33 Chilean miners is difficult to understand from a purely secular perspective. In this day and age of militant atheism, coupled with relentless assaults on Roman Catholicism, it is refreshing to read about the central role that Catholicism played in helping these courageous men survive, and of their… Read more
David Hayward talks about the silence of god: It’s amazing to me that religious people live their lives as if god is speaking to them in all those black panels and they know precisely what he’s saying… and then, they get call us “militant” or “angry” for pointing out the obvious: there’s nothing there. (via nakedpastor) Read more
If I told you a church was getting attention for their new billboard, you might brace for the worst. But here’s an interesting approach. Christ Covenant Church put this $1600 billboard up in Beaumont, Texas: Our failure has left a bad taste in people’s mouths. Our mistakes have led to a lack of credibility. Our messes have caused people to seek answers for this life elsewhere. And really, who could blame people for giving up on the church? Ghandi had… Read more
When Mark Oppenheimer of the New York Times wrote an article that I wasn’t particular fond of, I was afraid I’d cringe reading his follow-up piece. The first article was about a minor issue — a squabble between the current and former leader of the Center for inquiry that really wasn’t an important story for national readers. The new article looks at the debate between “accommodationists” and “confrontationalists” in our movement. (The words don’t make either side look good, but… Read more
Comedian Bo Burnham’s special “Words, Words, Words” airs tonight on Comedy Central — his new CD will be released on Tuesday — and here’s a sneak preview that Catholics may not like… Lots of excellent wordplay in here. Here are the lyrics in case you’d like to follow along: All the seats at the Sunday masses, Filled with the mass’s massive asses, Classes pass as fast as molasses. Ceremonial reading glasses. Read a little bit of Leviticus. All the kids… Read more
You know what would make these designs even better? Putting them on t-shirts. What?! Already done? Fantastic. Now, all I have to do is find an atheist convention where my shirts will be appreciated… (Thanks to The Godless Monster for the link!) Read more
***Update***: A reader has registered both JesusDoesNotCareFor.us and JesusDoesNotCareFor.me. If you think you can make use of one or both of the sites, please leave a comment and the reader will send you the domains! … It seems like a perfectly honest atheist ad: Of course Jesus doesn’t care. He’s dead. So he can’t. (Talk about flawless logic…) Unfortunately, a church beat us to the message. And it confused Christians too lazy to go to the website. A local church’s… Read more
The last time I wrote about this subject was a year-and-a-half ago and I thought I was done… Here’s what I wrote about the Mandatory Moment of Silence back then: Last year, Illinois passed a Mandatory Moment of Silence and Prayer Act. After being sued, it was changed [to] a Voluntary Moment of Silence bill. Even that version was struck down as a “sham” by a judge. That ruling was appealed over a year ago… and a verdict came in… Read more
