In Afghanistan on Thursday, a woman was swarmed by a mob that proceeded to beat and stone her to death before setting her ablaze and dumping her in a river for the crime of hurting god's feelings. The 32-year-old woman, named Farkhunda, had allegedly burned copies of the Quran, ...read more
Three days after 46-year-old Craig Stephen Hicks shot and killed three University of North Carolina students, President Obama has finally weighed in on this act of terror. The White House released the following statement Friday afternoon, notable for what it does not say (via ...read more
On Tuesday morning, police say 46-year-old Craig Stephen Hicks shot and killed three University of North Carolina students at their condo complex in Chapel Hill. A police spokesman said the "preliminary investigation indicates that the crime was motivated by an ongoing neighbor ...read more
On Thursday, potential presidential candidate and walking Cool Whip tub Mike Huckabee appeared on something called Life Today. Speaking with televangelist host James Robinson, Huckabee explained that the United States "cannot survive as a republic if we do not become -- once ...read more
Not very long ago, it was customary for apologists of Islam to lob accusations of bigotry, racism, or Islamophobia at those who dared to criticize the religion or suggest that too many of its practitioners hold extremist views. Most of the time these charges were (and still are) ...read more
On Monday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) appeared on something called Life Today hosted by televangelist James Robinson. In his appearance, Cruz espoused the common but still nonsensical view held by millions of American Christians that god deserves the credit for seeing the United ...read more
If you've watched a lot of football, you've seen a fair number of postgame interviews where some sideline reporter asks an athlete who made a game-winning play mindless questions that every hairy-armed couch potato with blue cheese stains on his shirt by knows by heart. "What ...read more
Updates below It was not my intention to write more about the allegations of plagiarism swirling around atheist writer C.J. Werleman. This is partly because I didn't wish to pile on, and partly because I imagined that Werleman would admit wrongdoing and offer an earnest ...read more
The level of dishonesty to which some critics of Bill Maher, Sam Harris, and other atheists critical of Islam have stooped wouldn’t be so discouraging were it not for the eagerness with which the deceit is received and proliferated. There is no shortage of examples, especially ...read more
There's a weird trend that's been slinking its way through the social justice community, whereby so-called New Atheists are being denounced for supposedly failing to embrace liberal causes such as diversity and equality. Apparently, atheism has a "race problem," or maybe it ...read more
Let me preface by saying I like Chris Hayes and think All In is one of the best shows on cable news. Meanwhile, I usually find myself disagreeing with most of what Bill O'Reilly says on The O'Reilly Factor. But what happened on Monday night is yet another example of the ...read more
Imagine that you have been asked to join an organization founded by a man who claimed he was visited by angels sent by god and ascended into heaven on a winged horse before he married a six-year old girl. Not only would you not join this organization, you would be outraged at ...read more
Last month, several organizations teamed up to start Openly Secular -- a campaign meant to increase acceptance of secularists and freethinkers in society. One of those groups is the Richard Dawkins Foundation, and on Thursday, Dawkins took to twitter to give a boost to a simple ...read more
One of the most entertaining pieces ever written about theism is H.L. Mencken's very brief Memorial Service, in which he sardonically wondered where the "grave-yard of dead gods" can be found before proceeding to list dozens of gods that people used to, but no longer believe in. ...read more
The Pew Forum has released a doozy of a poll about religion in public life in the United States showing that white evangelical Christians possess grossly overdeveloped feelings of victimhood. Given that the voting bloc evangelicals comprise is one of the most heavily pandered to ...read more
Last week, an anonymous sergeant in the U.S. Air Force made the news for omitting the words "So help God" from his Oath of Enlistment when he tried to reenlist at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada. The Air Force proceeded to freak out, and insisted that the sergeant must say "So ...read more
Dear Atheists In Congress: I know you're in there. We all do. Not that I needed confirmation, but the American Humanist Association says 24 of you have privately revealed to the organization that you don't believe in god. And surely the number of you in Congress is higher ...read more
Biologist Richard Dawkins sent twitter into a tizzy on Wednesday in response to a woman’s hypothetical dilemma about whether to abort a fetus with Down syndrome. In typical Dawkins fashion, he gave a straightforward reply: Let's state the obvious for a moment: twitter is not ...read more
Openly atheist, blind Democratic congressional candidate James Woods (D-Ariz.) had a flawless response to the anti-abortion extremists at the National Pro-Life Alliance this week: If you really want to prevent abortions, support access to birth control. After receiving a mailer ...read more
Watchers of The View on Wednesday were treated to quite the caterwauling session when the ladies discussed public prayer after a group of women in Georgia were told to stop praying inside a private shopping mall. As expected, self-loathing atheist S.E. Cupp stole the show by ...read more
Conservative S.E. Cupp of CNN makes for one terrible atheist. In 2009, she gave an interview on C-SPAN that would befuddle the finest team of doctors the field of psychoanalysis could offer. During one exchange, she claimed she'd never want an atheist president because such a ...read more
If you need any more evidence that atheists are pretty much the last demographic that it's socially acceptable to view with suspicion on national level, look no further this Pew poll released Monday. Gauging Americans' attitudes toward unnamed potential presidential candidates, ...read more
