This Non Sequitur strip by Wiley Miller tells the truth: Well, it mostly tells the truth. We’re all going to end up in the same place when we die… but it won’t be Heaven. Though I do enjoy this person’s comment: No one has mentioned that the “wrong religion” entrance has a much shorter line and therefore is a quicker way into heaven. That’s the larger message I’m taking away from this wonderful cartoon. (via 1 2 3 Religious Comics) Read more
This post is by Jesse Galef — Last Friday HERDdad asked for a regular Friday Funny featuring an amusing skeptic or atheist video. I can forsee a lot of Lewis Black, but might need suggestions from all of you to find more. That said, I’ve been watching all of the SMBC Theater shorts on youtube. Remember the hilarious “Just a Theory” video Hemant posted earlier this month? Same guys, same level of irreverence. Enjoy, and let me know about other… Read more
Dear Richard, My girlfriend recently asked me to come to church with her. She’s from Korea, and she doesn’t speak first-rate English, so she doesn’t know how to phrase things sometimes. She’s a very open person and she’s not interested in converting me or anything like that. She knows I’m an atheist, but she asked if I could come with her to church as just another place to go. I tried explaining to her how asking me to come to… Read more
This is a guest post by Kris Komarnitsky, the author of Doubting Jesus’ Resurrection: What Happened in the Black Box? … In January Hemant hosted Christian apologist Lee Strobel on this website. When Strobel was asked to provide some challenging questions to the audience here, the first question he provided was this one from fellow Christian apologist Dr. Gary Habermas: Utilizing each of the historical facts conceded by virtually all contemporary scholars, please produce a comprehensive natural explanation of Jesus’… Read more
Here’s a news story about the Big Apple Coalition for Reason atheist ad campaign. There’s nothing overly special about it, but reader Anna noticed some interesting juxtaposition: At the beginning of the clip, the anchor says, “People we talked to took the ad in stride.” A couple seconds later, the man being interviewed says, “… If they wanna burn in hell, they can do that.” That’s kind of him… Good with God? Please. Read more
So, this is how it works: 1) Go to The Amazing Meeting. 2) Get married. I thought it was just Rebecca who got married at James Randi’s convention, but behind the scenes, Kate was also working her magic. She gently breaks the news to the rest of us: … Remember how I went to TAM7 awhile back? Well, I roomed with this guy, right? I know some of you were suspicious at the time that something might have been going… Read more
True story: Last weekend, I was showing my dad a couple of the articles about the ChicagoCor Atheist Billboard. His reaction was, “Do you realize your name is now associated with atheism?!” Umm… My family knows about this website and my activism, but they don’t read it and we rarely talk about it. I can’t imagine trying to keep everything I do a secret from them, though, because it takes up so much of my life outside of work. …… Read more
A billboard put up by the Freedom From Religion Foundation was defaced yesterday: FFRF is offering a $1,000 reward to anyone who has information about the vandal that could lead to the person’s arrest. This is a hate crime directed both at the nonreligious and at gays — it’s a perversion of our message honoring a precious constitutional principle,” said Foundation Co-President, Annie Laurie Gaylor. “The hate crime shows how important it truly is to ‘keep religion out of government’… Read more
The On Faith blog asked panelists to comment on the questions: Is there good without God? Can people be good without God? How can people be good, in the moral and ethical sense, without being grounded in some sort of belief in a being which is greater than they are? Where do concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, come from if not from religion? From where do you get your sense of good and evil, right and… Read more
You remember the “atheist” mailer sent out by Albuquerque City Councilor Don Harris when he was trying to smear his opponent David Barbour by outing him as a capital-A atheist and criticizing his donation for a science scholarship? In case you missed it, Harris issued an apology for his actions on this site. He had some issues with how I approached the issue, but he did acknowledge doing something he shouldn’t have and I sincerely believe he feels remorseful about… Read more
