Reading Time: 2 minutes I can believe that you used to be an atheist. It’s the “just like you” part that I’m having a problem with. If you’d been just like me, you wouldn’t make apologetic arguments to which I have an immediate rebuttal.
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California Judge backs atheist parolee
Reading Time: 2 minutes AN ATHEIST drug offender in California, who was returned to prison after complaining about a faith-based rehabilitation programme he was ordered to attend, has won an important legal victory. Barry A Hazle Jr, 41, served a year in prison on a drug charge. As a condition of his release, he was ordered to attend a […]
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Interview with Roy Speckhardt of the American Humanist Association
Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s been a lot of reactions (good and bad) to the American Humanist Association’s atheist bus campaign. In short, the AHA will be running the following ad on buses in the metro Washington, D.C. area: The Christian Right thinks this is an attack on them. Conservative commentators aren’t happy either. Today, AHA’s Jesse Galef was […]
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Words From a Former Fundamentalist
Reading Time: < 1 minute Dan Barker, the co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, used to be a fundamentalist evangelical preacher. He writes all about it in his book Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists. In the latest Secular Student Alliance newsletter, he explains the mindset of a fundamentalist: It would be your lucky […]