I’ll be gone through Sunday night. If your comment needs to be moderated, it’ll have to wait until then. Have a good weekend, and please consider donating to the Secular Student Alliance! You’d be making a difference for young atheists around the country. And in honor of the Duggar family’s 17th child, here’s something to [...]

CNN is going to be airing a six-hour documentary over three nights beginning on August 21st. It’s called God’s Warriors. Christiane Amanpour will be hosting. For this documentary, Amanpour reports that during the last 30 years, each faith has exploded into a powerful political force, comprised of followers – “God’s warriors” – who share a [...]

JKC is a Mormon who works as a law clerk. He can make several comparisons between those two parts of his life: Like my time as a missionary, I work with Latinos, mostly Mexicans, in the U.S., who live off of field work. Like missionaries, I visit my clients in their homes. Like missionaries, I [...]

Max Blumenthal has a frightening piece in The Nation about “Operation Straight Up (OSU), an evangelical entertainment troupe that actively proselytizes among active-duty members of the US military.” As an official arm of the Defense Department’s America Supports You program, OSU plans to mail copies of the controversial apocalyptic video game, Left Behind: Eternal Forces [...]

The Oxford University Press (OUP) publishes a series of books called “A Very Short Introduction.” They cover a range of topics, from the Koran to Plato. The book Atheism: A Very Short Introduction is written by Julian Baggini. He recently did an interview with the OUPblog. OUP: Why do you think the recent books by [...]

The Institute for Humanist Studies (IHS) is hiring a 20-hour per week editor for the Humanist Network News (HNN) e-zine: Responsibilities include: writing original articles and editorials; assigning, soliciting, editing and copyediting news stories and columns; compiling letters to the editor section. … We are seeking candidates with news editing experience (campus newspapers OK). S/he [...]

Chicago Magazine came out with its 2007 “Best of Chicago” list. The best place to see comedy? Lakeshore Theater. (Which happens to be where I saw the Porn debate a couple nights ago, as well as opening night of Puppetry of the Penis a couple years ago. Long story on that one… one long, traumatic [...]

That is one strategically placed sticker. You win this round, clever Target employee… (Photo taken by Elizabeth S.) … (Update: For those who don’t get the joke, the book is called God is Not Great. The subtitle, How Religion Poisons Everything, might give away the author’s intent, but most people only notice the main title.) [...]

Math class descriptions at Castle Hills First Baptist School: Students will examine the nature of God as they progress in their understanding of mathematics. Students will understand the absolute consistency of mathematical principles and know that God was the inventor of that consistency. Because when you study triangles, you’re really just studying the Trinity. And [...]

Yesterday, you were able to share what turned you off to Christianity. Here’s the flip side request from Bill: What are the good things that you’ve seen come out of Christianity? Again, don’t be evil. None of the “I have something to scream during sex” lines from you (Oh, you know who you are…). If [...]