This hits kinda close to home. A student at Johnsburg High School in northwestern McHenry County, IL wants to start an atheist group at her school, but she’s facing a few challenges. Here’s what reporter Diana Sroka writes: Savannah Lanz doesn’t believe in God, follow religion, or look to any higher powers, and she’s hoping to form a student group at Johnsburg High School that echoes those beliefs. “The goal of the group is just to prove people can lead… Read more
Ray Comfort doesn’t need to ask for a debate with Richard Dawkins anymore. The debate is already over. Comfort and banana-pal Kirk Cameron have lost. The Creationism proponents used to say that if evolution were true, we should expect to see a crocoduck (a crocodile/duck transitional form) in the fossil records: They said we haven’t seen that hybrid, thus evolution is untrue. … Now comes news of a new fossil that was found… The unusually intact fossilized skull of a… Read more
James Dobson has stepped down from his role as Chairman of Focus on Your Family. Yippee…? I wish I could celebrate, but nothing’s really going to change. Dobson was FotF’s biggest asset but he was also their biggest liability. With him out of the picture, someone else will step up and spearhead the bigotry. So it’s not like FotF is going to be in favor of gay marriage anytime soon. They’ll still be the organization of choice for people with… Read more
Christianity Today has this poll up on its website regarding President Obama and the fact that he has not yet chosen a DC church to attend: I’d like to crash it, but all the choices make my head hurt… What fifth option do they need? Read more
It’s definitely one way for atheists to follow Christ: Bad news for us: Jesus is already on Twitter. However, he stopped updating months ago. Not sure what that means… (via grrrl meets world) Read more
Remember the atheist bus ad that was put up by the New Orleans Secular Humanist Association? Well, there’s now a Christian response ad to it — similar to the ones put up in Britain: It reads “There definitely is a God. So join the Christian Party and enjoy your life.” But what’s that writing underneath? Can anyone even read it? (It’s supposed to be on a moving streetcar, right?) Thankfully, reader Doug let me know what it says: Text AMEN… Read more
Austin Cline wrote this article last year, but it’s a great idea, so why not bring it up again during this time of Lent: The principle behind Lent is asceticism: denying material, physical pleasures for the sake of the soul. Atheists reject Christian mythology and can turn Lent on its head by observing anti-Lent. If Christians do penance for their sins, you can rack up new “sins” by test driving new material, physical pleasures. This life is the only one… Read more
Cartoonist Cam Cardow drew this political cartoon in The Ottawa Citizen: Heh. Cute riff on the atheist buses. A reader disagrees, however: I’m sure you can think of something to say about it; for myself, I’m too disgusted to comment. I’m not disgusted. I don’t think this is implying that atheists are about to believe in God (or are about to apologize to one for anything); rather, it’s saying it’s tough to enjoy your life given the crappy world economy…. Read more
What do you think the stereotypical atheist looks like? If you’re not sure… well, that makes one of you. When I hear atheists, the first adjectives that come to mind aren’t pleasant ones — not because they’re accurate, but because I’m so used to hearing them. I’m sure many of us can conjure up in our minds an image of a quintessential evangelical Christian just like many of them can come up with an atheist archetype with no problems. Author… Read more
A group for Democrats has now formed at Pat Robertson’s Regents University. The school has had a Republicans group since… well… forever. But this is new ground for them: … Carlos Campo, Regent’s vice president for academic affairs, said Robertson gave his thumbs up to the new group. “He said, ‘You know what, it reflects the openness of our campus and how open we are to sharing of ideas,’” Campo said of his talk with Robertson. Brandon Carr, Regent Democrats’… Read more
