A couple days ago, Kathy Griffin was making headlines for the acceptance speech she gave when she won a Creative Arts Emmy: Can you believe this shit? I guess hell froze over… A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. So, all I can say is, “Suck it, Jesus.” This award is my God now. But over at… Read more
A couple days ago, Al Lewis of The Denver Post wrote an article on the St. Joseph statues “helping you” sell your home. I didn’t like it. It seems the print version (not the one I read) ran the headline “There aren’t any atheists in a Front Range real estate foxhole.” That’s not Lewis’ fault. He doesn’t write the headlines. Still, and not surprisingly, he got feedback from atheists: “As an atheist and the coordinator of the Atheists and Freethinkers… Read more
It’s just so perfect. Occam’s Razors (formerly known as the Razorback Freethought Alliance) at the University of Arkansas – Fayetteville was featured in a nice article in the current issue of their college paper. They managed to get some great statements in the piece: “I was raised in a very strict, fundamentalist tradition of Christianity,” said Teresa Blalock, vice president of the Razorback Freethought Alliance. “In high school, when I began to question things like whether or not everything in… Read more
If you’re a pastor (and you know you are), make sure you’re doing everything you can to help out your wife: She needs a clearly defined and guarded role. She needs some help with the kids and house. She needs some help getting to and from church on Sundays. She needs a designated parking place. She needs a handful of safe relationships with other godly women. She needs to choose her own friends and define her own relationships. She needs… Read more
A couple months ago, another person named Hemant Mehta was in the news because he was suing Snapple. Apparently, I’m not the only atheist from Chicago with a clone. Rob Sherman (the atheist) is in the news because Rob Sherman (not the atheist) published a fake interview with Barack Obama in a French magazine. The non-atheist Sherman also faked interviews with other people: Reports surfaced this week that a former ABC News consultant, Alexis Debat, hired a suburban Chicago freelance… Read more
Former Mormon C. L. Hanson will start serializing Part 3 of her novel, Exmormon, next week! If you missed the first two parts, here’s your chance to catch up: Part 1: Young Women’s Part 2: Youth Conference It’s not just for ex-Mormons either. The novel is a series of stories which detail what life is like for those of us raised in a religious community, who care about that community, and who then stop believing in that faith. Here are… Read more
If anyone caught The Colbert Report last night, you heard Stephen open up the show with this teaser (hand gestures included): This is the church. This is the steeple. Open the doors… Get in there, you atheist! 🙂 (Done and done.) [tags]atheist, atheism, Stephen Colbert[/tags] Read more
Looks like a major story on atheism (focusing on Harvard’s Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein) will be published on Sunday in The Boston Globe. It also looks like the article will be discussing the positive aspects of Humanism and atheism — not just the usual atheism vs. religion stuff. Can’t wait to read it. [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
An atheist blog reader (wishing to remain anonymous) sent me an email. The person (“Bob”) often receives messages/emails/calls from a close friend who happens to be Christian. The Christian ask Bob how he is doing, if work is going well, and oh yeah, if he is attending church now. It gets annoying. And even though the Christian is aware of Bob’s atheism, the evangelism doesn’t stop. Bob can’t just blow off the friend. Too much would be lost if the… Read more
Publishers Marketplace reports (via email) that Don Piper’s book 90 Minutes in Heaven has been sold to a production studio. Meaning you could be seeing the movie version before long… NYT bestselling authors Don Piper and Cecil Murphey’s 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN, in which Baptist minister Piper recounts his death, passage to heaven, and return to earth where he endures a long and grueling recovery and spiritual awakening, to Dawn Parouse Productions (PRISON BREAK, TRU CALLING) for a feature film,… Read more
