Finally, the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science has been given tax exempt status in the US and Britain. The atheist charity is live. So go donate and show your support [tags]atheist, atheism, charity[/tags]

The new Carnival of the Godless is at Ain’t Christian. Go check it out! The next CotG is at A Load of Bright in two weeks. Submit your entries here! [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags]

Yep. It’s offensive. Fair warning. (via Deep Thoughts) [tags]atheist, atheism, Catholic, priest, sex, scandal, Priest Off[/tags]

There are some Christians who want to push Bible education into public schools. They claim that it’s not endorsing religion; it’s just teaching students about the Bible — It’s educational on a secular level! One group taking the lead in this is the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools (NCBCPS). Finally, a religion [...]

A couple days ago, Kathy Griffin was making headlines for the acceptance speech she gave when she won a Creative Arts Emmy: Can you believe this shit? I guess hell froze over… A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less [...]

It’s just so perfect. Occam’s Razors (formerly known as the Razorback Freethought Alliance) at the University of Arkansas – Fayetteville was featured in a nice article in the current issue of their college paper. They managed to get some great statements in the piece: “I was raised in a very strict, fundamentalist tradition of Christianity,” [...]

If you’re a pastor (and you know you are), make sure you’re doing everything you can to help out your wife: She needs a clearly defined and guarded role. She needs some help with the kids and house. She needs some help getting to and from church on Sundays. She needs a designated parking place. [...]

A couple months ago, another person named Hemant Mehta was in the news because he was suing Snapple. Apparently, I’m not the only atheist from Chicago with a clone. Rob Sherman (the atheist) is in the news because Rob Sherman (not the atheist) published a fake interview with Barack Obama in a French magazine. The [...]

Former Mormon C. L. Hanson will start serializing Part 3 of her novel, Exmormon, next week! If you missed the first two parts, here’s your chance to catch up: Part 1: Young Women’s Part 2: Youth Conference It’s not just for ex-Mormons either. The novel is a series of stories which detail what life is [...]

If anyone caught The Colbert Report last night, you heard Stephen open up the show with this teaser (hand gestures included): This is the church. This is the steeple. Open the doors… Get in there, you atheist! (Done and done.) [tags]atheist, atheism, Stephen Colbert[/tags]

Looks like a major story on atheism (focusing on Harvard’s Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein) will be published on Sunday in The Boston Globe. It also looks like the article will be discussing the positive aspects of Humanism and atheism — not just the usual atheism vs. religion stuff. Can’t wait to read it. [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags]

An atheist blog reader (wishing to remain anonymous) sent me an email. The person (“Bob”) often receives messages/emails/calls from a close friend who happens to be Christian. The Christian ask Bob how he is doing, if work is going well, and oh yeah, if he is attending church now. It gets annoying. And even though [...]

Publishers Marketplace reports (via email) that Don Piper‘s book 90 Minutes in Heaven has been sold to a production studio. Meaning you could be seeing the movie version before long… NYT bestselling authors Don Piper and Cecil Murphey’s 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN, in which Baptist minister Piper recounts his death, passage to heaven, and return [...]