There are lots of wonderful reasons not to attend a church. But every now and then, I come across something like this, and I feel a bit upset that I’m not part of a similar community. In case the picture isn’t coming through for you, it says: Select the restaurant you and your spouse would like to go to. Take the completed card to the atrium where you will see white balloons and volunteers in white “Date Night” t-shirts ready… Read more
Reader Chris visited the Creation Museum and wrote all about it so you don’t have to experience the horrors yourself. My favorite line: The Creation Museum is kind of like choosing between a white wedding cake or one made entirely out of horse shit. Sure, people always like more options, but sometimes its better just to trust common sense and admit that you don’t have to test an idea to know it’s [a] bad one. I wrote about my own… Read more
I mean that in a good way, of course. My friend Jason (who helps me fix up this site when needed) offers this impressive demonstration: Wow. It’s no 7 seconds, but I’ll be damned if I can get one side in under a minute even when cheating. Read more
In the first “official” day of the campaign to put a pro-atheist slogan on buses in the UK, the goal of £5,500 was reached at 10:06 a.m. this morning. That amount puts the slogan on “30 buses across the capital for four weeks.” As of this moment, they’ve raised nearly £50,000. And that’s not including Richard Dawkin’s £5,500 matching gift. Incredible. Jon Worth and the British Humanist Association ought to just buy their own bus and run the ad indefinitely…. Read more
The new Carnival of the Godless is at A Division by Zer0. Go check it out! The next CotG is at Enshoku’s Weblog. Submit your entries here! … The Humanist Symposium can be found this week at Terahertz. The next HS is at This humanist. Submit your entries here! … The Skeptical Parent Crossing can be found this week at Domestic Father. This carnival is “about skepticism, critical thinking, and parenting.” The next SPC is at Science-Based Parenting in three… Read more
In one sentence, convince people that they should abandon their current religion. (And none of you William Faulkner types, either. A 93849823-word sentence is no longer a sentence.) Read more
November is National Novel Writing Month and at least one of our readers, Jennifer, wants to write that 50,000-word beast of a novel. She wants it to be about atheism… But she needs a good plot idea. If you ever wished to have more fiction novels that deal with atheism (or related topics), throw out any plot ideas you have. I’m open to any suggestions! Even tips for what NOT to do (how not to stereotype atheists/theist, etc) would be… Read more
A couple months ago, blogger Jon Worth tried securing pledges to put a pro-atheist ad on UK buses (fourth story down). 877 people offered to donate, but it wasn’t enough to purchase the advertising. The campaign was temporarily halted. However, today, it’s back up and running and much stronger than before. With your support, we hope to raise £5,500 to run 30 buses across the capital for four weeks with the slogan: “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and… Read more
Here’s the first line of a recent news story: The 40 Days for Life campaign, a period of fasting and prayer to save babies from abortion, is in its final two weeks. If that was all they were doing, I wouldn’t care, because both of those things are ineffective ways to reach their goal. But they’re also harassing and intimidating women who visit health clinics — protesting and proselytizing — and that’s interfering with the womens’ choice. That’s a problem…. Read more
