All posts tagged "Atheists"

A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine confided in me about his son dropping a gigantic bomb regarding his religious stance. My friend's child came out as an atheist, which understandably makes parents who do believe in religion a little uneasy.

A Denver talk radio host suggested that it wasn’t possible to believe in God and still be racist.

Americans reflexively assume the worst about atheists, according to new research – and even other atheists share the prejudice.

Answers in Genesis's Ken Ham placed billboards designed to "reach out to atheists" in San Francisco and New York City's Times Square over the weekend. Ham's organization runs a widely mocked creationist museum in Kentucky, and Ham himself is fond of insisting that humans aren't related to apes.

[rebelmouse-image 24750321 original_size="197x271" expand=1]Sigh. The one thing that makes a gleeful, Hitchens-esque pissing on Hitchens' grave less fun is all the god-botherers who are doing it wrong. I mean, I suppose we shouldn't be surprised, as the authoritarian conformists who exploit every opportunity to preen about their imaginary sky friend display very little in the way of imagination or humor, but man, it's still a major bummer seeing "let's pretend the atheist wasn't an atheist". As described by the blogger Cuttlefish:

[rebelmouse-image 24750319 original_size="490x360" expand=1]I'm a little disappointed that none of the atheist blogs I read have addressed the controversy over Lowe's pulling their advertising from the show All-American Muslim, after being deluged with mail from a bunch of hateful Christian bigots. Now, there's nothing I hate more than people trying to score points by claiming that since you didn't blog about X, you must not care about X. I'm not doing that by any means; I'm sure a lot of atheist bloggers saw the story and took a pass because they didn't really think it falls in their wheelhouse. I get that. A lot of atheists probably think, "Well, we don't believe in Islam, so it seems a little strange to defend people who do," even if you do think that Lowe's did a really stupid, vile thing. But I would argue that this occasion is a perfect opportunity for atheists to speak out on behalf of the program and against the bigots who are trying to get it off the air. So I put a quick list of three ways that speaking out on this issue is not only the right thing to do, but to the benefit of atheist activists.