The Detroit Free Press’ David Crumm put out his list of the top 10 spiritual books to read over the summer. Guess which book is on there…?! Since the list is in “no particular order,” and I’m in the middle, I’ll just assume they meant to say I was number 1 but they randomized the list to be polite to the others 🙂 In all seriousness, Crumm writes a very concise, kind description of the book: Atheist books are everywhere… Read more
And I’ll get about 5 minutes to talk at each of the Sunday night and Monday morning demonstrations. My speech is written but it’s not finalized. Is there anything you would like to add to it? If there’s a line you want to say or a point you want made, let me know and I’ll try to incorporate it as best I can! I’ll post my speech on this site after the events. Read more
Well, you won’t see this video in the Creation Museum. Because it’s educational. It’s like my entire Cell Biology course in 8 minutes. The inner life of a cell: (via Street Anatomy) [tags]atheist, atheism, Creation Museum, Cell Biology, Street Anatomy[/tags] Read more
Joe talks about why he started his new blog: Although I am an atheist I am a bit fascinated by the idea of religion. It seems odd to me that adults walk around everyday actively believing this stuff. When I get the hankering I go to IIDB and read the “deconversion” stories. I find them infinitely interesting (maybe some day I will write up my own here.) But many atheist internet forums or blogs devolve into argument, insult, preaching. Reading… Read more
The nice part about speaking in different cities is that I get to meet some of the commenters from this site that I only know by screenname. For example, tonight, I got to meet mollishka and HappyNat! I also got to hang out afterwards with some wonderful campus atheists. Many thanks to Students For Freethought for putting the event together. The talk was a good time. I hope the audience enjoyed it. Now I’m exhausted. I’ll write more later… Read more
Clark Adams, the president of Internet Infidels and a good friend, committed suicide last night. The message has been spreading through the national organizations today… Anyone who has been to an atheist convention in the past few years most likely had a conversation with him or heard him give an interesting talk on “atheism in the media.” He was an expert in pop culture and was always excited to talk about what was going on in the atheist world. He… Read more
Jim Henderson spoke to a group of Christians and atheists Monday night. Oxymoronredundancyparadoxtrap has a nice writeup of the event. Here’s an excerpt: A young man talked about growing up in a really conservative baptist church, and how hard it was to get out of his head the thought that he, and/or others, would go to hell if they didn’t maintain a correct belief. He asked Jim how Jim would respond to someone saying he was going to burn in… Read more
We have a couple people posting their thoughts on I Sold My Soul on eBay. First, Greg over at Free Mind Joe. Greg is a non-religious person as well, but he gets what I was trying to do in the book and he feels like it succeeded: While “I Sold My Soul on eBay’s” publisher, Waterbrook Press, produces material for a religious audience (they are “an autonomous evangelical religious publishing division of Random House“) Hemant doesn’t tone down his atheist… Read more
Pastor Mike Clawson responds to your questions. This is the last of the series, so thanks to Pastor Mike for offering to answer so many of the questions (and thank you for asking them)! I wonder what else we can do like this… You can also read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5. … Okay, this is my last post. These have turned out to be a lot tiring and time consuming than I expected,… Read more
I’m going to be speaking at The Ohio State University this Thursday evening, May 24, at 7:30 p.m. (local time) in Hitchcock 131! The event is free and open to the public. It’s being put on by a wonderful group, Students for Freethought. If that’s not enough, I’ll also be at the Barnes & Noble in Easton Town Center (also in Columbus) on Sunday, May 27 at 3:00 p.m. for a booksigning. What does this all mean? If you live… Read more
