On tonight’s episode of the Colbert Report, the guest will be Richard Dawkins, talking about his book “The God Delusion.” Go watch! [tags]Richard Dawkins, The Colbert Report, The God Delusion[/tags] Read more
This article is just plain disturbing. It describes the Jain ritual of fasting and how some followers in India take it to its extreme. Jainism is my family’s religion, and the whole fasting thing is part of what drove me away from the religion (and all religion) in the first place. Granted, in America, I’ve never heard of Jains fasting until death, but there are many Jains who fast for eight days straight (boiled water being one exception) during the… Read more
One of the more interesting dilemmas I read about yesterday: A girl at a Christian college deciding whether or not she should come out as an atheist. [tags]Christian, college, atheist[/tags] Read more
Last weekend, I was speaking in Wisconsin. Before I went, I was also invited to join a small group from a local church during the same time– they were going to do some volunteer work and asked if I wanted to join them. I couldn’t go because of the previous engagement, but the idea of what the group was doing sounded interesting. (more…) Read more
A columnist from The Journal Times (Racine, WI), Mike Moore, wrote a nice article about a speech I made just outside Milwaukee over the weekend. The article can be found on the paper’s website as well as Moore’s blog. [tags]Mike Moore, The Journal Times, Racine, Wisconsin, Milwaukee, atheist, eBay[/tags] Read more
The Secular Coalition for America is running a contest that anyone can enter… if they can fill out the form in the first place. (more…) Read more
Amber Mangum, a seventh-grader from Greenbelt, Maryland, was “threatened with discipline” at her school. What was her offense? Reading her Bible at lunch. (more…) Read more
Ben Franks is the Democrat running for a seat on the 6th Court of Appeals in Texas. Now the Republicans are using his supposed atheism against him as reason alone not to vote for him. (more…) Read more
Larry Darby is back in the news… so something disturbing must be happening. Darby, the former atheist and current Christian, was defeated earlier this year in the primary to become Alabama’s Attorney General. Why did he lose? It might have something to do with his white-supremacist, Holocaust-denying views, but who’s to say… still, he received 43% of the primary votes. Nice work, Alabama. What’s he up to now? Trying to run for Governor. He sent this letter to the heads… Read more
An atheist, Eliza, over at Conversation at the Edge shares an interesting encounter attending a religious class offered by a local Lutheran church. Her writeup suggests that either she’ll be getting hilarious responses from the pastor, or they will just cancel the class altogether. I mean, really, who are these skeptics who dare to ask questions…! [tags]Conversation at the Edge, Lutheran, atheist, church[/tags] Read more
