Jen McCreight was in Chicago last night giving a talk about Boobquake for the Women Thinking Free Foundation. In case you missed it, or don’t live in Chicago, the video is now available! Watch it to find out how Boobquake got started, how it spread, and what the aftermath was like. (Thanks to Bruce for the link!) Read more
I think a lot of us have been in this situation before: you’re walking around a college campus and a Christian preacher hands you a Chick tract or some other pamphlet. Perhaps you take it, but you laugh it off. What a horrible way to try and convert me, you think. Nick, The Hopeful Skeptic, doesn’t understand that tactic either. After one preacher tried to give him a useless tract, Nick had a brief conversation with him: When I asked… Read more
This story and the question with it comes from an anonymous reader: My daughter was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy a few years ago and just recently my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. Ugh! Hit with a ton of bricks. We’re about to go through a major event; fortunately, we have a lot of family and friends to help us out. We are not religious and never go to church, but we haven’t come out as declared atheists, so I… Read more
I’ve read three different versions of this story and still can’t quite piece together what happened. But the gist of it is that a teacher at a high school (Schandra Tompkinsel Rodriguez) responded to a student’s claim that Haiti had a pact with Satan and that’s why God sent them the earthquake by admitting she was an atheist. One student said something about her needing holy water, and lo and behold, two Christian teachers (Leslie Rainer and Djuna Robinson) showed… Read more
Fargo native Brian Magee is an atheist who wants to get the license plate ISNOGOD, but North Dakota officials rejected his request. It looks like Magee has a good defense, though. He has photos of license plates from the state reading: PRZZGOD, ILOVGOD and TRI GOD. He’s written an appeal letter to the state’s Department of Transportation in which he explains his thinking: “(I)f the state only allows one point of view on religion to be expressed on its property… Read more
How is it possible that I got more Muhammad images *after* I posted the compilation than before it? I don’t have time to post all the new ones I’m getting but this one by Louis made me laugh: And this one from Lyz was simple and effective: A few other Everybody Draw Muhammad Day related activities have also happened since Thursday. The University of South Carolina Pastafarians couldn’t chalk their campus, so they put up flyers with the image of… Read more
Remember that Mojave cross that was up, then stolen, and then replaced? It’s been taken down again. There will likely be an update to this story in 5… 4… 3… Read more
I just spent the evening with the Alliance of Happy Atheists at the University of Oregon — it was a wonderful night with a really active, fun group of people. How can you not love a group that uses these signs? They also went out of their way to promote my talk! While we’re at it, how awesome is any campus atheist group that holds its own prom? Anyway, it turns out they’re currently in a contest to win $1,000… Read more
When discussing religion, I’ve heard Stephen Colbert say this a couple times: “Isn’t an agnostic just an atheist without balls?” I used to think Agnosticism was a fair position to take. The first openly non-religious person I ever met was a girl who called herself agnostic back in 8th grade. I don’t remember how she explained it, but whatever she said, it made sense to me at the time even though I was still religious myself. But now, that term… Read more
Last weekend, the Center For Inquiry recently hosted an African Americans for Humanism conference in Washington, D.C. At nearly 60 guests, it was arguably the largest gathering of non-religious African Americans ever (at least if we’re talking about meeting specifically as atheists). Writer Jamila Bey was there and writes about the event at The Root: Among black folks, if you’re a criminal who shows up at a service on whatever Sabbath you subscribe to, you’re just a fallen human who… Read more