PZ Myers on Minnesota Atheist Talk Radio
Today’s interview with PZ Myers was pretty much Dick Cavett meets David Susskind. OK, maybe more like Jerry Springer meets The View. Well, not really, more like … Oh I don’t know. Let’s just say you...
View ArticleHigh Schools Pushing Back against Organized Atheist School Groups.
High school student Brian Lisco just wanted to form a student club. A senior at Stephen Austin High School in the Houston suburbs, Lisco wanted to meet with like-minded students; students who shared...
View ArticleIs Being an Atheist in Sweden Different From Being an Atheist in the United...
This Sunday, April 10th, Minnesota Atheist Talk Radio will host Science Blogger and Atheist Dr. Martin Rundvist and journalist and broadcaster Yusie Chou, both from Sweden (Yushie was born in Mao’s...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Clarence Darrow
Darrow was born this day in 1857. He was a lawyer and a prominent member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). We know him as the defender of John Scopes in the Monkey Trial of 1925. Darrow and...
View ArticleWhy don’t we replace these ugly mugs with some pretty female faces?
I have a theory as to why atheism and skeptcisim tend to be old-white-guy activities (even when they are not) which might explain this picture: But I’ll tell you this theory only if certain conditions...
View ArticleAntievolution legislation in New Hampshire
The two antievolution bills on the horizon in New Hampshire have now been prefiled in the state House of Representatives. House Bill 1148, introduced by Jerry Bergevin (R-District 17), would charge the...
View ArticleIs Bob Collins of MPR trying to damage Baseball and Mn Atheists?
A strange thing appeared on Minnesota Public Radio’s web site yesterday, and it might be such an excellent example of crappy journalism that it is worth mentioning just for that reason. Or, it could be...
View ArticleAtheist Voices of Minnesota is Out!
Atheist Voices of Minnesota: an Anthology of Personal Stories is a newly published book that a number of your favorite bloggers and atheist personalities have chapters in, including me. It is now...
View ArticleQuiet down the atheists
When Atheists talk, people listen. Then, they tell them to shut up. David Phillip Norris of the Twin Cities recently wrote an article for MNPost called With talk of tolerance and equality, one group is...
View ArticleAtheist Billboards: Marketing Miracle Needed?
Over the last couple of years, there seems to have been a higher rate of erecting billboards by atheists, humanists, and other secularists than previously. Hemant Mehta, the Friendly Atheist, selected...
View ArticleMoney Missing “In God We Trust”
“In God We Trust” was added to American currency fairly recently as part of a right wing plot to break down the constitutional guarantee of separation of church and state. But there is some money out...
View ArticleHumanist Service Corps: Missionaries Without God
This year Foundation Beyond Belief (FBB) is sponsoring the Pathfinders Project, a year-long volunteer journey, taking four humanist volunteers across the world to work in education, clean water, human...
View ArticlePZ Myers is the Happy Atheist
Atheists come in many varieties. For example, they can be angry like Greta Christina, or they can be Friendly, like Hemant Mehta, or they can be Positive, like all the Atheists in Minnesota. PZ Myers,...
View ArticleThe Godless Children Are Coming
America has always been pretty religious, but every now and then it seems that a more strident than average religiosity arises among us. The history is complicated and I don’t want to give a different...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Clarence Darrow
Darrow was born this day in 1857. He was a lawyer and a prominent member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). We know him as the defender of John Scopes in the Monkey Trial of 1925. Darrow and...
View ArticleBeing a Voyeur of Religion, Politely
This is a post I wrote elsewhere, a while ago, and just realized was never put on this blog, so here it is. I thought of this post and the topic because of the recent data of the Ms Jesus Scroll, which...
View ArticleThe Insulted Trilobite
I’d like to point out a new book that I think is interesting and worth a look. It is called “The Insulted Trilobite: some helpful objections to the God Delusion” and it is by the pseudonymous J. A....
View ArticleGod-Awful: The Worst Religious Leaders of the Western World
There are a lot of great and admirable religious leaders. Gandhi. Some other guys. But there are also a lot of bad ones. Did you ever want to have a place to look up who these dudes are (and most, but...
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