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Humanist Service Corps: Missionaries Without God
Posted by Greg Laden on April 8, 2013 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 rights and construction projects, and to evaluate programs for inclusion in a future Humanist Service Corps (HSC). The HSC will be a proud moment for all…
Money Missing “In God We Trust”
Posted by Greg Laden on February 19, 2013 
“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 there that predates that moment in history, and if you want some you can have it. It will cost…
Atheist Billboards: Marketing Miracle Needed?
Posted by Greg Laden on December 28, 2012 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 among the large number of Big Missives a subset of 18 “finalists” in a contest. You get to vote for five among these, and…
Quiet down the atheists
Posted by Greg Laden on December 14, 2012 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 still forgotten: atheists. This was written as a reflection on the just finished and rather dramatic fight against an anti…
Atheist Voices of Minnesota is Out!
Posted by Greg Laden on August 4, 2012 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 available in print form. Everybody who is an Atheist has a story as to how they got that way. In the United States,…
Is Bob Collins of MPR trying to damage Baseball and Mn Atheists?
Posted by Greg Laden on July 14, 2012 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 an excellent example of journalistic activism, and that’s worth a look too. Or, it could be a reporter with nothing…
Antievolution legislation in New Hampshire
Posted by Greg Laden on December 21, 2011 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 state board of education to “[r]equire evolution to be taught in the public schools of this state as a theory, including the theorists’…
Why don’t we replace these ugly mugs with some pretty female faces?
Posted by Greg Laden on May 23, 2011 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 pertain: 1) You are someone I trust and 2) I’m slightly drunk.
Happy Birthday Clarence Darrow
Posted by Greg Laden on April 18, 2011 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 Scopes lost that trial, which was the first of many court cases regarding the teaching of…
Is Being an Atheist in Sweden Different From Being an Atheist in the United States?
Posted by Greg Laden on April 5, 2011 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 China and moved to Sweden as a child). Mike Haubrich and I will serve the roles of host and interviewer. I expect the show…
High Schools Pushing Back against Organized Atheist School Groups.
Posted by Greg Laden on March 7, 2011 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 common interests, who could talk about ideas they found interesting, who could give one another support. But his efforts were consistently thwarted…
PZ Myers on Minnesota Atheist Talk Radio
Posted by Greg Laden on February 20, 2011 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 don’t want to miss it. And, since you already did miss it you need to listen to the podcast,…
“Anglicans counter “New atheism” with new online resource”
Posted by Greg Laden on January 17, 2011 How can there be a God when people are suffering through floods and fires? How can God sit back and allow bad things to happen to good people? A new online resource from the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne offers answers to these and other difficult questions as the Church seeks to engage directly with the…
Is Ricky Gervais a Pariah Because He Was a Dick, or Because He Is An atheist?
Posted by Greg Laden on January 17, 2011 Did you happen to see Ricky Gervais hosting the golden globes last night? It is said he did it without a script. He was very funny, bitingly funny, and it is quite possible that he went too far in his roasting of some of the presenters (his main job was introducing presenters). Not being very…
Game Show Will Pit Religious Leaders Against Atheists
Posted by Greg Laden on January 15, 2011 In Turkey, there is a game show in which representatives of several religious cults (Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, and Judaism) attempt to convert one or more of a group of ten atheists to their religion. The atheists are pre-certified by a panel of experts and any converts are traced for a period of time to ensure…
Black Atheist Distinction
Posted by Greg Laden on November 30, 2010 A message from Ayanna18vcu
Is religion a good or evil force in society?
Posted by Greg Laden on November 26, 2010 Americans and citizens of some of the most Islamic countries tend to agree that it is a force acting on the side of good. Many Europeans say the opposite. There is a rough correlation between the religiosity of a country and how much religion is revered (duh) as a primarily good thing.
CNN: Unbelief More Common
Posted by Greg Laden on November 10, 2010 … in 48 states.
Hitchens Brothers Disagreement over God on NPR
Posted by Greg Laden on October 13, 2010 The brothers have publicly argued over faith for years. But now that Christopher Hitchens has been diagnosed with cancer, the theoretical argument has become real. Just how real was apparent at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, where the brothers were having a public conversation about God. Read and listen here.
Happy Blasphemy Day: How I became an atheist
Posted by Greg Laden on September 30, 2010 It was Blasphemy that led me to Atheism by a somewhat circuitous yet in the end well marked path. This is the story of my first step on that path.
Most Americans are deeply ignorant about religion.
Posted by Greg Laden on September 30, 2010 Except Atheists and Jews. They know stuff. Watch Penn Jillette take a quiz on religion: I love this quote: “I gave my daughter a bible. That’s how you make atheists.”
Is Obama really a Muslim?
Posted by Greg Laden on August 25, 2010 Or is he merely …. an atheist?
A good example of appeasement
Posted by Greg Laden on August 12, 2010 … can be found here, in this talk by William Phillips speaking at the AAAS:
Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery Boycott In Progress
Posted by Greg Laden on August 9, 2010 Yeah, I used to go to the Town Hall a lot, when I worked a couple of blocks away. I still stop there for lunch now and then when I’ve got something to do on the West Bank campus of The U or nearby downtown. But no longer. Recently, an atheist-linked event was scheduled there,…
God, Darwin … or Both?
Posted by Greg Laden on July 13, 2010 Speaking of Accommodationism and New Atheism and stuff, check out this 10 year old discussion:
Nobody cares that Julia Gillard is an atheist
Posted by Greg Laden on July 1, 2010 According to a Social Analysis who has studied the issue. Gillard is the new Prime Minister of Oz.
What if “Boob Quake” had been …
Posted by Greg Laden on May 3, 2010 “Dick Shake”
Tony Perkinstsz: You leave our Religumunt alone!?!?!
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 Religious right to judge: “Shut Up.”
Richard Dawkins to Arrest Pope*
Posted by Greg Laden on April 11, 2010 Rumor has it that Richard Dawkins, along with Christopher Hitchens, plan to use the same legal gambit that allowed the arrest of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998, to arrest Pope Benedict XVI for his alleged involvement in the cover-up of Catholic priest sexual abuse cases. Do you think Dawkins has gone to far?
BAT 2010: The Secular School
Posted by Greg Laden on April 7, 2010 This is my belated contribution to Blogging Against Theocracy.
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