Do Humanists have a sense of humor? Ron Lindsay, President and CEO of the Center for Inquiry, wants to hear your best jokes! The contest winner will receive a copy of Tom Flynn’s The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief. There is a catch — to enter the contest, you must become a member of CFI. Other rules are here. Here: Get some practice. Finish the joke! An atheist walked into a bar… Read more
The atheists have lost. It looks like Festivus is only getting bigger — it’s followers are going to steal our thunder as the propagators of the War on Christmas! Most importantly, we can’t compete using our current ways of doing business, says Jon Carroll of the San Francisco Chronicle: (Disappointingly, the atheist “display” [in Olympia, Washington] was nothing more than a cheesy cardboard sign mounted on an easel saying “There is no god” in large black sans serif letters. The… Read more
A word of advice to religious people: When a woman on a dating website has a profile that mentions her atheism, please, please, please do not respond to her like this guy did to a friend of mine: My God, what’s the world coming to when girls with angelic countenances like yours turn out to be atheists? Me, I still believe that there’s good and evil, and since those concepts are rendered meaningless in an atheistic framework, I’m not willing… Read more
The Gideon Bible. Long before cable television, spa treatments and eco-friendly soaps and shampoos became staples in hotel rooms, there was the Bible — the Gideon Bible. And the book with the familiar two-handled pitcher and torch on its cover that most guests find inside hotel nightstands doesn’t appear to be going anywhere anytime soon. Gideons International is celebrating its 100th anniversary distributing Bibles and has begun efforts to hand out more Scriptures in the U.S. to boost a distribution… Read more
After Christian apologist Lee Strobel’s first response to your questions, there were a lot of remarks and rebuttals. Before getting to the next question, Lee wanted to respond to your earlier comments (once again, all hyperlinks were added by me): Wow, my first submission to this site prompted 91 comments the last time I checked. Whew! I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether we achieved the kind of mutual respect and constructive discussion that I think, deep down,… Read more
This list is making the rounds, but it’s so good, it deserves another plug. Kate Miller of Charlie’s Playhouse has put together a fantastic compilation of evolution books for children (PDF) in honor of Charles Darwin’s bicentennial. Are there any other books you would recommend for kids to learn about Darwin’s contributions to our understanding of life? Read more
American Atheists’ national convention is taking place April 9-12 in Atlanta, GA. If you haven’t registered yet, you should do so soon! Speakers include Richard Dawkins and (estranged son of Pastor Fred Phelps) Nate Phelps. If you go, you’ll also get to attend and take part in a Mass De-baptism Ceremony! I know from experience how entertaining those can be 🙂 Read more
Considering atheists celebrate Monkey, brown people have been called macacas, and the fact that I am a vegetarian, I’m deeply offended by this on all sorts of levels. A federal judge in Brooklyn has rejected a Liberian woman’s religious reasons for smuggling endangered monkey meat into the country. U.S. District Judge Raymond J. Dearie ruled Wednesday that Mamie Manneh’s faith didn’t preclude her from applying for permits to import exotic food or explain why she misled officials. Manneh was charged… Read more
Who should represent atheists on television? There’s no one right answer to that question, but when you see an atheist on TV news, it tends to be for a short time and there’s a lot of arguing. Not always, but often. And that doesn’t bode well for us. Usually, newspeople are going to go to leaders of atheist organizations, a person filing a lawsuit, or an author when they need a person to discuss the “atheist side” on some topic…. Read more
We now have a female voice on this site to add to our list of contributors! Please welcome Trina Hoaks! Trina is the author of the book 1 Atheist 1 Voice, a collection of her articles about atheism. She is also the National Atheism Examiner (columnist) for Examiner.com. You can read more about her at the About the Contributors page. Feel free to say hello! Read more
