As an atheist, I must endure: — Not being able to run for public office in some states at all. (Link) (more…) Read more
I promise there is a non-political point to this: If you don’t already listen to Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, the NPR news quiz show, go to their website and listen. The podcast is one of the most downloaded programs on iTunes each week, and the show has an estimated audience of 2,000,000 people. (more…) Read more
Southern Illinois University has this *crazy* rule that says campus groups cannot discriminate against potential members. An African-American group cannot say no to a white person joining, a feminist group cannot say no to a male joining… you get the idea. But when a Christian group says no to a gay student joining, that’s ok. They are exempt from the rules. (more…) Read more
An atheist family lives in the panhandle of Oklahoma. The daughter is on her public school’s basketball team. Before a game, she refuses to say a prayer in the locker room. She also did not join the team in the on-court prayer before a game. She gets kicked off the team as a result. As the atheist, she has rumors about her spread around school. The dad goes to talk to the principal about all this, and the principal strikes… Read more
I’ve made mention before of how much I loved seeing the one-woman show by Julia Sweeney (a.k.a. Pat from Saturday Night Live). The show is called “Letting Go of God” and it’s one of the best stories I know of someone going from religion to atheism. If you haven’t heard it yet, an excerpt was broadcast on NPR’s “This American Life” a while ago and you can hear it here: [tags]Julia, Sweeney, Letting Go of God, God, NPR, This American… Read more
This whole eBay experience has been one of an atheist visiting Christian churches. This often begs the question of whether there are any Christians who have gone to atheist gatherings to see what goes on there. Has anyone done this to learn about what atheists believe? (more…) Read more
Yesterday, my senator Barack Obama made a speech about how Democrats need to embrace faith. The speech is here. Already, I’ve received a couple emails from Atheist organizations opposing the comments he made. For them, any expression of faith in the public square is anathema to their own agenda. What did Obama say? Definitely not that we should merge church and state. Instead, he said: (more…) Read more
Pastor Tim responded to my post below (Once again showing how great he is with the positive dialogue): (more…) Read more
(***Update 7/10/06: The pamphlet mentioned in this post was edited to mention that the National Geographic article does say that there is sufficient evidence for evolution. Soon after that, other points about the inaccuracies of the document were discussed on this website and the pamphlet was taken down from the Parkview site altogether. Thus, the links in this post no longer work.) As I said last week, Pastor Tim was a great guy to talk to, but I did have… Read more
