I found this note on my car, after taking my children to the Asian part of town to eat. We love Vietnamese food because of our family heritage. It turns out this is part of a Biblical verse… And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom […]
Secular Pro-Life Same Old Scare Tactics
If I were to tell you that a purportedly secular anti-abortion group was engaging in the very same fear mongering and harassment of abortion providers that the largely Christian dominated pro-life groups do; would you be surprised? The True Pooka’s final report on Secular Pro-Life’s tactics is posted. In addition to the other tactics Pooka documented, the group […]
What really matters…The So-Called Secular Arguments Against Choice
It is often difficult and awkward to move disagreements forward to where they become productive in the insular, organized atheist community. Especially for a family that is as actively involved as the Ra family, because a lot of times we know and like and often respect the people involved on a personal level. And to […]
Why do atheists have to be so mean? Podcast Today 5/5 with Actress Hayley Myers, Tom Melchiore, and NAP’s Flash Kellish and Sheila Blackadder
Specifically why doesn’t anyone want to ally with us, even other secularists sometimes? We’re like red headed stepchildren; we can’t do anything right for a lot of people. We will also be discussing atheist vitriol to each other on The Nones . It is approaching toxic levels on the topic of feminism. Hayley wants to be a more […]
Tips on Evangelizing Evolution from Aron Ra
Ray Comfort noticed that a lot of atheists visited his Facebook page, and it occurred to him that he could train other Christians to witness to the “unsaved”. “The average Christian can’t stand on a soapbox at a university and preach, but he or she can now engage the unsaved and have their comment read […]
Morton’s Dementia
Back in the days of Usenet, one of the posters to Talk.Origins was a former creationist named Glenn Morton. He is the author of a meme, Morton’s Demon which explained the sort of confirmation bias at work in the religious mindset. This he had witnessed from within and without, and his story is an interesting […]
Aron Ra on Dogma Debate
Wednesday November 7th, I will be on Dogma Debate from 7:00pm to 9:00pm central [Texas] time. I’ll be on with David Smalley and Shayrah as we take live callers at 214-377-1166. Hear it live at dogmadebate.com Listeners who don’t want to call can tweet their questions/comments to the host @davidcsmalley The show will podcast to […]
Reason on The Rock
Reason in the Rock [Little Rock] was well-planned and played well. Kudos to the Arkansas Society of Freethinkers and the Central Arkansas Coalition of Reason.
Going to have to burn my new Secular Humanism T-Shirt by Lilandra
WTH?! I followed a link from a blog comment linking the Tea Party to Fascist government to a secular humanist site. You know you have to be ever vigilant against fascism. Right? But then what is up with this site’s banner… Why make a point to everyone that visits the site that you are “Beyond […]
Don’t blame the atheists
How often do you get microphone from the steps of the state capital, right? Here is a link to the recordings wherein our governor, Rick Perry declared ‘spiritual warfare’ against secularists and atheists. http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/perry-christian-warriors-spiritual-warfare-satan-separation-church-state