Reading Time: 3 minutes Alaina Browning is everything a new mother would want if she’s considering giving up her child for adoption. Browning, who’s 30, and her husband have a stable income and a nice home, and they’ve been foster parents in the past. They have a five-year-old daughter and they could conceive again if they wanted to, but […]
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A day of shame for Nigeria: Humanist Mubarak Bala jailed for 24 years
Reading Time: 2 minutes Humanists International today (Tuesday) strongly condemned a decision by the Kano State High Court to jail Bala for 24 years. The organization, which has been vigorously campaigning for Bala’s release from the day he was taken into custody, described the sentence as “outrageous”. Bala was found guilty on 18 counts of causing a public disturbance […]
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The woman who kept aborted fetuses in her home works for an atheist
Reading Time: 4 minutes You may have heard the news by now that police found five dead fetuses inside the home of an anti-abortion zealot. What you may not know is her connection to an atheist who has attempted to bridge the world of secularism and anti-abortion activism. Lauren Handy and the stolen fetuses On Wednesday, nine people were […]
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After 10 years in a Saudi prison, blogger Raif Badawi has been freed
Reading Time: 3 minutes It came as something of a shock on Friday when the family of Raif Badawi announced that, after ten years, he was finally out of prison. That was shocking largely because it seemed hard to believe this day would ever come. How Raif Badawi ended up in prison A resident of Saudi Arabia, Badawi was […]
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Atheist ‘pirates’ in LA are removing religious signs from public streets
Reading Time: 3 minutes A group of atheists in Los Angeles have been doing their part to clean up trash in city. And yet their voluntary service may end up angering people because what they’re removing are unsanctioned and unapproved religious signs put up all over the city by anonymous Christians. For years now, those signs have been put […]
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Dr. Ben Carson: Accepting church/state separation is a form of ‘schizophrenia’
Reading Time: 3 minutes On Thursday, during a keynote address at the Air Force Academy’s National Character and Leadership Symposium, Dr. Ben Carson denounced the principle of church/state separation while putting forth a Christian Nationalist agenda that had no basis in the facts. The neurosurgeon and former Trump-nominated Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was asked at the end of […]
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An atheist called out religious hate speech. Facebook punished him for it.
Reading Time: 2 minutes YouTuber and podcaster Seth Andrews recently received a 30-day suspension from Facebook for the crime of… calling out the bigotry of a Christian hate-preacher. And since I accidentally played a role in his banishment, it seems worth chiming on what a horrible move this is on the part of Facebook (and its parent company Meta). […]
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In 2021, atheists made up only 0.1% of the federal prison population
Reading Time: 4 minutes There were 139,002 people in the U.S. federal prison system last year, and exactly 143 of them identified as atheists. Those self-described atheists made up a mere 0.1% of the federal prison population. That’s according to a Freedom of Information Act request I filed last summer with the Federal Bureau of Prisons that arrived earlier this […]
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Neil Young, Joe Rogan, and the dystopian art of streaming
Reading Time: 6 minutes When I started writing this article, the story was about Neil Young leaving Spotify in protest over it placing the Joe Rogan podcast on its platform. That was over a week ago. As of today, almost 100 episodes of the Joe Rogan podcast have been taken down from Spotify. While the reasons were unclear at […]
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Are secular values guiding Kyrsten Sinema’s politics?
Reading Time: 2 minutes When Democratic Senator from Arizona Kyrsten Sinema took the oath of office in January of 2019, she did something different from most elected politicians in the United States: she didn’t use a Bible or any other religious text. Sinema was sworn in with the Constitution because she is religiously unaffiliated—the only member of the Senate […]