Hemant Mehta is the founder and editor of FriendlyAtheist.com, a YouTube creator, and podcast co-host. He is a former National Board Certified math teacher in the suburbs of Chicago. He has appeared on CNN and FOX News and served on the board of directors for Foundation Beyond Belief and the Secular Student Alliance. He has written multiple books, including I Sold My Soul on eBay and The Young Atheist's Survival Guide. He also edited the book Queer Disbelief.
David McAfee, the author of several books about faith and atheism, has teamed up with writer and illustrator Chuck Harrison for a new project introducing religion to children. The Book of Gods offers an objective take on what people believe and why they believe it. In the excerpt below, the authors explain prayer to kids who might not be familiar with the concept: Read more
Over the weekend, I mentioned that police in Trenton, New Jersey had a proposal to curb the recent increase in violence: They would take kids who are caught violating curfew and take them to a local church. As if that wouldn’t create more problems than it would solve. Thankfully, some church/state separation groups are now taking action. Read more
Yesterday, I posted about how Matthew Jansen, a Donald Trump delegate and local school board member, criticized the St. Paul’s United Church of Christ in Dallastown, Pennsylvania for the sign outside the building: “Wishing a Blessed Ramadan to Our Muslim Neighbors.” Over the past couple of days, after a lot of criticism, and arguably because people were talking about kicking him off the school board, Jansen went on a Twitter apology tour. Read more
Boston College Philosophy Professor Peter Kreeft, in a video for “Prager University,” claims that atheists should want God to exist. Because the “misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully” sounds like a great God to worship. Let’s run through some of his key arguments and talk about why they make no sense: Read more