Joey Nelson: Atheists Have No One to Thank on Thanksgiving

I read a lot of material written by religious theists — mostly Christians — about atheists and atheism. I see a lot of different myths, misconceptions, mistakes, and even outright lies. Too many to count, in fact. One characteristic which I see that is common to so many different myths and lies, though, is the [...]

Activists Protest Church of Christian Science

MEDICAL NEGLECT IS CHILD ABUSE! JOIN VICTIMS IN PROTEST!!!
June 8 from 11:30-3:30pm
200 Mass Ave., Boston, Mary Baker Eddy Library
Dr. Seth Asser, a pediatrician who is dedicated to the cause of protecting children from medical neglect, CHILD, Inc, the RI skeptics Society and the RI Atheist Society would like to invite you to protest the [...]

Darwinist Teacher Violates Establishment Clause?

My Keloland Colleague Cory Heidelberger beat me to this one.  From FoxNews:
A federal judge ruled that a public high school history teacher violated the First Amendment when he called creationism “superstitious nonsense” during a classroom lecture.
U.S. District Judge James Selna issued the ruling Friday after a 16-month legal battle between student Chad Farnan [...]

Following atheist trend, Britons seek ‘de-baptism’

LONDON (AFP) — More than 100,000 people have recently downloaded “certificates of de-baptism” from the Internet to renounce their Christian faith.
The initiative launched by a group called the National Secular Society (NSS) follows atheist campaigns here and elsewhere, including a controversial advert displayed on London buses which declared: “There’s probably no God.”
“We now produce a [...]

Theists growing concern with ‘New Atheism’

How odd it seems to me that just after I finished reading an article by fellow Examiner, Paul Fidalgo, last night that I should go to my e-mail inbox and find an alert of an article of a very similar nature. And then, this morning, again, two more alerts to yet another article and another tidbit.
It seems there is [...]

Pushing Back Against the Push-Back

I was unaware that writing books, giving lectures and making tv appearances can now be defined as fanatical. Or by saying “fanatically intolerant atheism personified by Richard Dawkins” is he suggesting that Dawkins and Hitchens are known to be hoarding weapons and organising groups of martyrs in order to suicide bomb churches and the like, [...]

Study: Poverty dramatically affects children’s brains

By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY
A new study finds that certain brain functions of some low-income 9- and 10-year-olds pale in comparison with those of wealthy children and that the difference is almost equivalent to the damage from a stroke.
“It is a similar pattern to what’s seen in patients with strokes that have led to lesions [...]

Town sued after billboard promoting atheism removed

By DAVID OLSON
The Press-Enterprise
 
A Wisconsin group recently sued the city of Rancho Cucamonga for its alleged role in the removal of a billboard promoting atheism.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed the lawsuit in U.S. district court in Los Angeles against the city and the director of its redevelopment agency, Linda Daniels.
The group had paid [...]

Atheism and Morality

By Shannon Murphy

Am I immoral? Some would argue so. Not because of my actions, of course, or because of what I say, but because of what I believe—or rather, what I don’t believe. I don’t believe in a God, a heavenly being, a higher power. For me, there is no white light at the end [...]

U.S. getting its own atheism bus campaign

Atheists seem to have a thing for buses. We recently wrote about the bus ads in London which proclaimed, “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” Along these same lines, Washington, D.C., is now getting its own atheist bus campaign, headlined, “Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness’ [...]

Resurrection of Sabbath Laws

The idea of legally enforcing a “day of rest” has lain somewhat dormant until recent years, but lately the cat-calls from the choir have begun increasing in volume. In Massachusetts, the state’s Council of Churches initiated a campaign to pressure various governments, schools, businesses, and civic groups to “respect” the “religious tradition of our churches” [...]

New Documentary by Bill Maher ‘Religulous’

When I attended a press screening for Bill Maher’s “Religulous” in New York on Tuesday, it struck me like a lightning bolt on the road to the Kodak Theatre via Damascus: yeah, “Religulous” will probably be nominated for best docu at the Oscars — and God help us all after that.
We know that “Religulous” is [...]

UK: City Council ban on atheist websites

Lawyers at the National Secular Society said the move by Birmingham City Council was “discriminatory” and they would consider legal action.
The rules also ban sites that promote witchcraft, the paranormal, sexual deviancy and criminal activity.
The city council declined to comment on the possible legal action, but said the new system helped make it easier for [...]