The Secular Coalition for America recently released a scorecard rating our elected officials on a number of issues relevant to the non-believing community. Most of them are relating to judicial nominations for reasons explained on the webpage. (more…) Read more
Ten years ago, an atheist woman sued the Boy Scouts of America because her first-grade son was *required* to attend a recruiting session for the scouts during lunch at a Portland public school. The woman claimed discrimination– the Boy Scouts require boys to profess belief in God, and that wasn’t how she was rasing her son. (And you can’t be gay, either, because apparently that makes you unqualified to tie knots.) (more…) Read more
A school in St. Louis was giving away Bibles… to 5th graders. Now, they have to stop. Liberty Counsel (from the Jerry Falwell camp) defends the school and says it’s unconsitutional to stop the giveaway program. (more…) Read more
Now, normally I’m against dead atheists. But Dane Cook’s version of what could happen to the atheist who tried to start a theological debate with him amused me greatly. (I know what you’re thinking: An atheist starting a theological debate? Never!) (more…) Read more
Philip Paulson is the Vietnam War veteran who sued to remove the Mt. Soledad National War Memorial Cross which is on public property on San Diego. This suit has been ongoing for nearly 20 years, and recently, President Bush signed legislation transferring the cross to the Department of Defense. (Good to know they’re not too busy with the War that they have time to get involved in something like this…) Paulson recently announced that he has been diagnosed with terminal… Read more
In New Orleans, on the anniversary for Hurriance Katrina, a prayer service was planned in the city. An atheist objected to this. At this point, you’re thinking “Big surprise. An atheist tried to ruin everyone else’s celebration.” But that wasn’t the case at all. The atheist in question, Harry Greenberger, wanted to be included in the ceremony. It’s not like atheists were spared by the disaster. Plus, he is a local leader, as he’s the president of the New Orleans… Read more
Father Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican’s chief exorcist (I’m not making this up), has recently said that Hitler and Stalin were possessed by the Devil. Which is just sad. It’s like saying they didn’t have a choice doing what they did. They would’ve been nice guys, but the Devil just screwed it all up! Of course, that’s absurd. If anything, we need to learn how to stop those types of people from even coming into power. We can’t give them a… Read more
I sent in my student membership dues a while ago, and last week, I finally received my “Thanks for joining” package from American Atheists! Very exciting. What does one get when joining an atheist organization, you ask? — A notepad with the AA logo. (To leave notes for your coworkers… before you get fired.) — The AA Magazine. (Cover story: “The Value of Being a Pain in the Ass” which talks about how we need to stand together and complain when… Read more
This is why: It’s Joel and Victoria Osteen! AHH! What happened at their church? Pre-order the book to find out… [tags]Joel Osteen, Victoria Osteen[/tags] Read more
