Atheism

Lock up your Mastercard, the atheists are coming!

February 18, 2009

We atheists get accused of a lot of things. Usually it’s just the same tripe repeated over and over again ad nauseum.  Every now and then though a religious group has an original thought.  It’s a stupid thought, but it is original. The religious group this time is the Free Market Foundation here in Texas. [...]

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An Evangelist’s Nightmare

February 15, 2009

Banana King Ray Comfort tries to sell Jesus to the wrong guy:

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Atheist Bus Campaign arrives in the US

February 13, 2009

The Atheist Bus Campaign has arrived in the United States courtesy of the FFRF.  There are six bus ads in all, but here are my two favourites (click to enlarge): You can read more about the campaign and donate to it at the Foundation’s site.

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Atheists are what??

February 11, 2009

When it comes to liars for Jesus, there is none greater than Ray Comfort.  Take a look at his answer to the FFRF’s billboards, a billboard promoting his new non-interactive anti-atheist site: Trina Hooks, the Atheist Examiner, has already slapped that site around here, here and here,  including Comfort’s new(ish) lie about what atheists are [...]

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Teacher suspended after accusation of atheism

February 6, 2009

I’ve been in a rotten mood the last few days and reading this post over at PZ Myer’s has not changed my disposition.  It appears that a teacher by the name of Richard Mullens of Brookeland, Texas was suspended after a parent accused him of being an atheist. On January 15th, there was a board [...]

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You can’t rebel against what you don’t believe exists!

February 4, 2009

What is it with Christians running around saying they used to be atheists because they ran around being, at the very least, stupid assholes for a while? Take the makers of this silly assed shirt shown to the left. It’s being marketed towards Christians who “would not have said God did not exist”. Many of [...]

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Boy Scouts blaming gays, atheists for logging?

February 1, 2009

A few days ago the local newspaper carried a story about the Boy Scouts of America getting in trouble with supporters over land deals that seem irreconcilable with the public perception of the BSA as land conservationists. And though this story has popped up in many newspapers, only one has a council leader appearing to [...]

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Pat is back!

December 24, 2008

And he’s got a few things to say:

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Las Vegas to be sued by Humanists?

December 14, 2008

Here’s a bit of interesting news, the American Humanist Association may be suing the City of Sin due to state laws that forbid atheists from officiating weddings: In a city launched by shotgun weddings and quickie divorces, and which offers the chance to be wed by faux Liberaces, King Tuts and Grim Reapers, there remains [...]

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How to talk to atheists

December 12, 2008

Laci explains in ten simple steps how Christians can go about having a conversation with atheists:

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