If you live in Northern California and you’re looking for a part-time job that allows you to be an atheist activist, this is the position for you: The ideal candidate will have experience in atheist, freethought or humanist activism at the college level. Someone with experience leading or helping to lead a student group would be an especially strong candidate. Any experience with campus activism will be helpful. She or he will have excellent communication skills, including speaking and writing…. Read more
Whether you’re an atheist or not, does your thinking make sense when it comes to questions of religion? Take this short test and find out if there are any holes in your logic! No cheating. Tell us how many hits you took and how many bullets you bit! (Thanks to Linda for the link!) [tags]atheist, atheism, Christian, logic, religion[/tags] Read more
Imagine the pleasant surprise I had today when I opened up the Chicago Tribune and saw the following teaser on the upper left hand side of the paper (click to enlarge): So I open up the Tempo (a.k.a. features) section and see Dawn Sherman’s picture taking up nearly the entire page! Dawn is, of course, the 14-year-old activist who has fought against the mandatory moment of silence law in Illinois and “got God banned from Homecoming.” (She’s my hero. And… Read more
A new study of people who do not regularly attend church by LifeWay Research, “the research arm of the Southern Baptist Convention,” shows us the following: 44% agree with the statement “Christians get on my nerves.” 72% agree that the church is “full of hypocrites.” 61% say the God of the Bible is “no different from the gods or spiritual beings depicted by world religions such as Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc.,” although Buddhist philosophy has no god and Hindus worship… Read more
Blog reader Tamy makes these comments (via email): We need more places that kids can got to socialize and NOT in churches. I feel compelled, because of my two children, to start a group that lets kids form relationships and discussion groups with their peers without the pressure of god. Does anything like this exist already or shall I blaze a path? Church youth groups would be perfect without the religious attachments. Any suggestions for her? [tags]atheist, atheism, children[/tags] Read more
Ray Comfort took the Orange County Atheists up on an offer to join them for dinner. From the way Ray describes it, it’s like he wants to be praised for simply accepting the invitation and coming out of the IHOP (referred to as the “International House of Prayer” — zing!) without any visible bruises: I accepted their invitation and decided to take my manager with me (Mark Spence is the Dean of the “School of Biblical Evangelism”). Before we went… Read more
Beth Bates (a Christian) and Traci Cumbay (an atheist) are beginning to go to women’s church ministries in Indiana together. They’re blogging about their experiences at ChurchRater. I’m already liking Traci’s ability to create new words: Traci: The mingling with churchies while they’re all churched up intimidates me. Beth: Stay close to me — I’ll be your ally. I won’t join them when we’re together. Traci: You say that now, but we’ll get there and you won’t be able to… Read more
No, not Barack Obama. Not Alan Keyes. The other one. Albert Benjamin Howard. You know Albert Howard. He’s the guy who paid $1,000 and signed some papers to get on the New Hampshire primary ballot. The guy who appeared on C-SPAN’s Lesser-Known Candidates Forum. The guy who wrote a remarkably specific, prediction-making, self-promoting blog entry: Albert Howard is a Michigan Republican Presidential Candidate on the road to the White House in 2008 from Ann Arbor, MI. Honorable Albert Howard is… Read more
Susan Hogan/Albach of the Chicago Sun-Times talks about what label she should use when identifying Catholics: As a religion writer, I firmly believe that religious organizations are entitled to be identified by their official names. That’s why at every newspaper I’ve worked at, I’ve lobbied against the Associated Press stylebook when it comes to Catholics. Instead of saying “Roman Catholic Church,” as the stylebook suggests, I’ve said “Catholic Church.” The exception has been when the “Roman” is necessary for clarification… Read more
It’s live. You can talk to him now! Just go here. (Hehe.) And if you click the camera when you’re done, there’s an old Sam Harris article as well. (via NoGodBlog) [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
