Stephen Colbert on Florida’s Christian license plates: (Thanks to Matthew for the link!) [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
Some of you have requested it and I’m more than happy to oblige. This site now has a female contributor! She’s Mormon. And quite the awesome. You’re going to love her. Lindsey Kirth lives in Utah, is working toward a degree in criminal psychology, and her hilarious website speaks for itself. You’ll be hearing more from her in the coming weeks, so I’ll stop there for now. Please make her feel welcome! [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
Last week, I ran this contest: Create a poster/saying about atheism or faith that becomes humorous with a *slight* change in spelling. Here are the Top 10 responses (with submitters)! 10| (Kira C.) 9| (hoverFrog) 8| (Ashes) 7| (hoverFrog) 6| (miller) 5| (Ubi Dubium) 4| (Richard Wade) 3| (Laurie Soule) 2| (Ubi Dubium) 1| (Citizen Steve) Congratulations to the winners! The top three will be receiving specially-made Friendly Atheist wristbands (in the color of their choice), sent to me by… Read more
He’s giving a free lecture at The New York Academy of Sciences this Saturday. Festivities begin at 9:00 a.m. The talk is called “The Purpose of Purpose,” and Dawkins will do a Q&A afterward. You can get the free tickets by RSVP-ing here. (via 3quarksdaily) [tags]atheist, atheism, Richard Dawkins[/tags] Read more
Kent Gramm was a popular English professor at Wheaton College (a prominent Christian school) for the past twenty years. After thirty years of marriage, he and his wife recently got divorced. He doesn’t want to talk to his bosses about it. Therefore, he can’t work at Wheaton anymore. That’s not a non-sequitur. Though the college has sometimes hired or retained staff employees whose marriages have ended, officials say those employees must talk with a staff member to determine whether the… Read more
Sometimes, movies like Expelled get made and can be found in theaters across the country… and you wonder how it didn’t go straight to DVD. Other times, movies go straight to DVD and you wish it could have been seen in theaters everywhere… Hell, yes. Can you imagine three hours of Pat Condell on IMAX? Add popcorn and a female, and it’d be the best date *ever*. For now, we’ll have to do with the Pat Condell Anthology (February 2007… Read more
A lot of you may have already read the excerpt from Matt Taibbi’s new book The Great Derangement in the current issue of Rolling Stone or throughout the atheist blogosphere. If not, you at least owe it to yourself to read a couple of his Campaign 2008 articles for RS. Taibbi is also a frequent correspondent on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. He recently spoke to me about his new book, religion and politics, and the New Atheists. Hemant… Read more
Ellen Johnson, the president of American Atheists, is on a mission to deliver Bill Moore’s 45-year-old message that never reached its final destination. Here’s the story as Ellen tells it: My name is Ellen Johnson and on April 23, 2008 I am going on a journey to rewrite history and get some justice for the many Freedom Walkers who were prevented from delivering a letter for racial harmony in 1963. The story began in 1963 with an Atheist named Bill… Read more
