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Dawkins Names Finalists for Video Awards
The judges have selected seven finalists in the “Ten Point Vision of a Secular America” contest. Please login or register to cast your vote for the best entry. The winner will be the submission that gets the most votes of registered readers at richarddawkins.net. Voting ends midnight, February 22, Pacific Time. The winner will receive [...]
by Blair Scott
3 Feb 2012 at 10:23am

Signs A U.S. Politician Might be a Dominionist
Becky Garrison is a Christian writer who agrees with American Atheists on many issues and has contributed articles in the past criticizing elements of Christianity in government, etc. In the upcoming American Atheist magazine will be Becky?s full article about Dominionism. In the meantime, Becky has provided us with a list of signs to look [...]
by Blair Scott
2 Feb 2012 at 6:47am

All Pennsylvania Atheists to Celebrate 2012 As the Year of the Bible
  The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is up to its batshittery again by approving  H.R. 535, a resolution that designates 2012 the ?Year of the Bible.? This Resolution was introduced by the Bible-banging Rep. Rick Saccone (R-Elizabeth Township), along with 36 other legislators. This Bible-banger insists that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of [...]
by Al Stefanelli
31 Jan 2012 at 1:43pm

OSU Football Player Asks Twitter Followers to ?Show Some Hate? To An Atheist
Hate, as an emotion, can be a very powerful motivator for both good and bad. The hatred of racism has helped propel civil rights. The hatred of sexism has helped propel women?s suffrage. When one sees hate fuel good things, it is usually hate directed at an unjust or cruel idea or social norm. It [...]
by Blair Scott
25 Jan 2012 at 3:08pm

Some Of My Activist Targets For 2012
?Georgia, Georgia, the whole day through. Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind? ? Ray Charles This year, in my capacity as Georgia State Director for American Atheists, Inc, I will bring new fights against those who would not only abrogate the First Amendment, but do so to the detriment of our children. [...]
by Al Stefanelli
14 Jan 2012 at 5:31pm

Yahoo News: Atheism


Atheism Billboard to be Placed in Dallas by African Americans for Humanism
Atheism supporters are popping up all over the country. They're putting up banners and billboards in various cities and towns. The latest billboard for non-deist views will be coming from the African . . .
6 Feb 2012 at 3:58am

Atheism and established religion
Many people think that Atheism is not a religion because it is defined as "Disbelief in the existence of God or gods", but to me it seems to go far beyond that. I have yet to meet a single atheist who . . .
4 Feb 2012 at 10:31pm

Atheism Panel Sparks Heated Discussion
The Pomona Student Union (PSU) hosted a panel entitled ?Now What? Atheism Beyond the Question of God? on Nov. 11. The discussion featured three atheist panelists and took place in Edmunds Ballroom.
31 Jan 2012 at 7:19pm

'Temple to Atheism' proposal splits non-believers
A proposal to build a 151-ft. tower to celebrate "new atheism" in London has pitted some of Britain's most recognized non-believers against each other, The Guardian reports. 
27 Jan 2012 at 2:15pm

Maher?s New Rule: Atheism And Religion Are ?Not Two Sides Of The Same Coin?
In his final New Rule of the night, Bill Maher disputed the idea thrown out by some that atheism is a religion. It's a refrain you hear from people who can't stand both groups and believe that dogma is dogma, plain and simple, but Maher argued that treating atheism like a religion would be like saying "abstinence is a sex position." After all, when was the last time a non-believer ever claimed ...
3 Feb 2012 at 9:13pm

African Americans for Humanism to put up atheism billboard in Dallas
The campaign is meant to show that it's OK for blacks to be atheists.
5 Feb 2012 at 8:49pm

Yahoo Answers Tackles Religion, Atheism
And the award for the year?s best analogy goes to some rando on Yahoo Answers. Yahoo Answers Tackles Religion, Atheism is a post from: The Inquisitr Yahoo Answers Tackles Religion, Atheism is a post from: The Inquisitr
4 Feb 2012 at 2:36pm

Atheism 2.0: Don?t get god, get good
Towards the end of last year, while celebrating Christmas with family and friends, I came up with the phrase ?Don?t get god, get good?. I posted it on Facebook and Tweeted it. It was seen by some religious people as an oxymoron and some said my words were ?bad?. Others offered that it might be [...] Atheism 2.0: Don?t get god, get good is a post from: SciScoop Science News
28 Jan 2012 at 5:53am

Freedom From Religion Foundation: News


Why presidents should boycott prayer breakfasts
Statement by Annie Laurie Gaylor FFRF Co-President President Barack Obama’s 2,562-word speech to the National Prayer Breakfast yesterday was an exercise in pure unadulterated political pandering. Blithely ignoring FFRF’s formal requests that he not participate, he’s given similar talks the past two years at the National Prayer Breakfast — a private event with a public name organized by the...
3 Feb 2012 at 10:23am

FFRF asks West Point to rethink prayer breakfast
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has written a Jan. 31 letter to the U.S. Military Academy calling for it to do some "soul searching" over West Point's annual so-called "National Prayer Breakfast," after a controversy about Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin's invitation to speak. FFRF is a national state/church watchdog with over 17,500 members nationwide, including 24 percent who are active duty m...
1 Feb 2012 at 12:08pm

FFRF protests misuse of federal, presidential Seals by National Prayer Breakf...
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has contacted four federal agencies over what appears to be egregious violations of federal law by publicizers of the National Prayer Breakfast, who are appropriating the Presidential, Congressional and Great Seals of the United States to promote the breakfast. The misuse gives the false impression that the infamous National Prayer Breakfast, which takes pla...
1 Feb 2012 at 9:53am

FFRF hails long overdue Alaska Airlines announcement
Statement by Annie Laurie Gaylor FFRF Co-President Today, at long last, Alaska Airlines will cease a much-protested-by-us practice of distributing “prayer cards” to its airline customers. Late last week Alaska Airlines announced it has been providing those cards for “more than 30 years,” but has finally reconsidered. A statement signed by Bill Ayer, Chair and CEO, Alaska Air Group, and ...
1 Feb 2012 at 7:27am

FFRF to sue over Catholic Shrine on federal land
The Freedom From Religion Foundation will be suing the U.S. Forest Service over the unconstitutional presence of a Knights of Columbus shrine to Jesus in Flathead National Forest in Montana. FFRF has readied a legal complaint and plans to file it shortly in federal court in Montana. In an official memo released today by the US Forest Service, it announced it will reauthorize a special use ...
31 Jan 2012 at 2:09pm

Prayer breakfast serves up an unlawful mixture of state/church
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has sent a cautionary letter to President Barack Obama asking him to once again disassociate the Oval Office from the so-called annual "National Prayer Breakfast" taking place on Thursday, Feb. 2. Obama is scheduled to once again participate.  "The National Day of Prayer Breakfast lends the unmistakable appearance that the White House itself is cosponsorin...
30 Jan 2012 at 2:29pm

Pennsylvania bible resolution is ?sinfully? unconstitutional
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is protesting an unconstitutional resolution naming 2012 the "Year of the Bible," unanimously passed (193-0) in the Pennsylvania General Assembly this week. House Resolution 535 arrogantly exhorts citizens to "study and apply the teachings of the holy scriptures.” What a discredit to the legacy of William Penn, one of the earliest champions of freedom of...
27 Jan 2012 at 8:53am

Maine Prayer Caucus issues immoral ?call to prayer?
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has sent a memo to Gov. Paul LePage and the Maine Legislative Prayer Caucus highlighting a few of the historical fallacies, contradictions and inaccuracies in the “Call to Prayer for Maine” signed on Jan. 17. FFRF is a nonprofit, educational organization representing over 17,000 members across the country including members in Maine. It represents a viewp...
23 Jan 2012 at 12:55pm

Virgin Mary (again)


Our Lady of the Hand Held Camera
As any fool can plainly see, this photograph that was taken with insufficient lighting using a hand held camera includes a chromatic aberration that undeniably reveals the presence of Our Lady of the Hand Held Camera. In fact quite a few fools are able to see this reportedly virginal mother of an imaginary deity. And [...] Related posts: Our Lady of the Tree That Looks Just Like a Tree Our Lady...
by Ungodly
8 Jun 2007 at 9:32am

Our Lady of the Vagina Shaped Reflection on a Garage Door
In Minersville Pennsylvania there is a house with glass windows that is across the street from a garage with a garage door. Sometimes the angle of the sun is such that the sun shines on the glass window of the house and a portion of that sunlight is reflected onto the surface of the garage [...] Related posts: Our Lady of the Obviously Stained Cloth Our Lady of the Freeway Underpass Our Lady of...
by Ungodly
20 Sep 2007 at 10:27am

Our Lady of the Chocolate Dildo
Miraculous Virgin Mothers seem to be popping up all over the place. In Southern California a worker at a candy factory who admits she believes in ancient fairy tales discovered a miraculous Virgin Mary Dildo that was made out of 100% pure chocolate. Don’t you just wonder if it melts in your butt, not in [...] Related posts: Our Lady of the Not Very Convincing Grill Smear Our Lady of 1 Million T...
by Ungodly
26 Feb 2007 at 4:14pm

Our Lady of The City of The Dead, Believe One, Get One Free
The City of Colma, California is famous primarily because of the fact that the vast majority of it’s citizens are dead. We’re talking in the ground, planted, buried. Most of the city consists of cemeteries. Some of the cemeteries are visited from time to time by people afflicted with Catholicism. And so, with the heightened [...] Related posts: Our Lady of the Gnarly Tree Trunk Our Lady of the ...
by Ungodly
22 Mar 2007 at 9:32am

Our Lady of the Virginal Hardwood Vagina
At an undisclosed location in North America, a team of Papal security guards are standing watch over the holiest of all shrines to Our Blessed Mother, the one which proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that she is, in fact, a virgin mother. It is plainly obvious that She has chosen a poor, misshapen [...] Related posts: Our Lady of the Vagina Shaped Reflection on a Garage Door
by Ungodly
26 Feb 2007 at 8:38pm

Our Lady of the Fraudulent Tears of Blood
An Italian Catholic church custodian is on trial in Forli, Italy for committing religious fraud. If only this was a new trend! Of course uttering the phrase religious fraud is as redundant as saying Republican liar, but in this case the fraud was so far over the top that even the Roman Catholic Church did [...] Related posts: Our Lady of the Completely Unconvincing Tree Stump Our Lady of the Ob...
by Ungodly
23 Apr 2008 at 10:04am

Our Lady of The Grilled Cheese Sandwich
In one of the most famous cases of pareidolia in recent US history, a woman afflicted with Catholicism imagined she saw and recognized the image of Our Lady of The Grilled Cheese Sandwich as she was making a grilled cheese sandwich. Now I feel pretty confident that if the image of a member of my [...] Related posts: Our Lady of the Painful Looking Road Rash Our Lady of the Honey Mustard Pretzel...
by Ungodly
26 Feb 2007 at 2:47pm

Our Lady of the Calcium Deposits on a Rock
Water flowing down through cracks in the vertical surface of some large rocks has left calcium deposits on the surface, forming the telltale vaginal shape of a miraculous fictional virgin mother, or so says a caller to a Twin Falls Idaho newspaper. Shoshone Falls, Idaho. Visitors to the site disagree about this instance of mineral [...] Related posts: Our Lady of the Defective Double Glazed Win...
by Ungodly
27 Feb 2007 at 7:13am

ProfMTH on YouTube


Holiday Greetings and Some Other Business

Holiday Greetings and Some Other Business
Just a quick video to offer some short comments on a few matters and to extend good wishes for the holidays. BTW, I know I mispronounce Christopher Hitchens's name at one point. (Thanks for all the messages reminding me of that. Let me assure you, I am my own harshest critic. :-) ) Perhaps I *should* have poured out some scotch rather than drinkin...


License to Bully?

License to Bully?
A response to Decojuicer regarding a religious exemption in an anti-bullying bill that recently passed the Michigan State Senate. Links: 1. Decojuicer's video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRfEOTXYOTA 2. The text of "Matt's Safe School Law" as passed by Michigan's State Senate: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2011-2012/billengrossed/Senate/htm/2011-SEBS-0137...


The Death Penalty

The Death Penalty
Three points in this video. First, capital punishment does not comport with Jesus' teaching as presented in the New Testament and, therefore, it is odd that Christians support capital punishment in such significant numbers. (BTW, I am well aware of the fact that there is reason to doubt that the story of the woman taken in adultery is original to the Gospel of John. So the...


Raising Dolla, Dolla Bills, Y'all (My Donation to the MSF / Doctors Without B...

Raising Dolla, Dolla Bills, Y'all (My Donation to the MSF / Doctors Without Borders Auction)
In addition to co-hosting an hour of this weekend's BlogTV event in support of Doctors without Borders (I will be on Saturday, September 17th, 2011, starting at 3 PM EDT / 8 PM in the UK), I have donated something to the online auction, i.e., I will do the highest bidder's outgoing answering machine or...