A Texas preacher has been found guilty of sexually molesting many of the girls in his congregation: Dell Ivan Godkin, 48, was found guilty of sexually abusing one victim beginning when she was 13-years-old, and continuing until she was 17, by telling her God approved of what they were doing. “He would say lots of things about God being OK with it,” explained prosecutor Monica Cooper, adding that Godkin would cite passages from the Bible to explain the roles of... Read more
From David Saperstein’s bio with the State Department: David N. Saperstein is the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. He was confirmed by the Senate on December 12, 2014, and was sworn in and assumed his duties on January 6, 2015. His position is what gives this, a blog post he wrote for the State Department about the need to abolish blasphemy laws, so impact: It is shocking to note that almost half of the world’s countries have laws and policies that... Read more
You may notice a new button at the top of the blog: Hillary with the Patheos tech team was nice enough to add it up there. If you ever have a story or, even better, a question that you’d like to submit to me, that’s the place to do it. If I get enough questions, I’ll start answering some of them on the blog. 🙂 Read more
Yesterday the story of the atheist who had his $100 donation rejected by a Baptist-run charity exploded. A GoFundMe was created to entice the charity to take the money, but they said they’d reject any amount on principle (that principle supposedly being that atheists can’t care about or help children, or that their money can’t be used to do so). Welp, as of right now it looks like Camp Quest is going to get a donation of about $25,000. Rock... Read more
Good morning, everybody! Juggling otter. Read more
I’m watching the Trump rally in Tampa right now. His intro speech was given by the ever deplorable Pam Bondi (who opposes same-sex marriage because it will destroy familial stability, though she, herself, has been divorced twice). And then…Trump isn’t there. So they’re just playing music and the crowd is milling about. So let’s get caught up with all things Trump in the meantime. Speaking of Florida, it’s a state Trump must win. Like, if he loses Florida, all the... Read more
Bishop Daniel Obinim found out a couple teens had tried to get an abortion, which means they’d *gasp* had sex. So what was the solution? Was it to talk over their options, to make sure they had support? Nope, it was to beat the shit out of them: Controversial founder of the International God’s Way Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim was escorted in handcuffs and transferred to the Accra Police Headquarters after he reported himself to Tema Regional police station earlier... Read more
Recently Matt Wilbourn, founder of the Muskogee Atheist Community, tried to donate $100 to the Murrow Indian Children’s Home, only to have his donation refused on account of his atheism: Matt Wilbourn says his donation was denied by the Murrow Indian Children’s Home after he asked that the home put the donation in the name of the Muskogee Atheist Community. “I filed out the paperwork and I put my wife and I’s name on the paperwork,” he said. “At the... Read more
I’m not ordinarily Buzzfeed’s biggest fan, but this is god damn epic: Read more
Good morning, everybody! 🙂 Puppy learns to fetch. Read more
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