Republican Senate candidate believes rape is something intended

Republican Indiana Rep. Richard Mourdock, who is running for a seat in the U.S. Senate, believes that rape is something intended and planned by the god that he believes in. He literally said it. He stated in a debate with Democratic candidate Joe Donnelly that, "I think that...

Humanist Kurt dies and Republican hypocrisy on abortion

Paul Kurtz, who has been called the father of secular humanism, died this Sunday. He helped jumpstart the modern humanist movement. A movement that I can proudly say I am a part. A movement that works to ensure that society and public policy is reason based, and not...

8 year old girl cursed at by religious zealots in Israel

In a town outside of Jerusalem, Israel, little Naama Margolese, an 8 year old girl, faces being called a whore and spit upon by ultra-orthodox Jewish men. Yes, you read that right. She is called those things and even has had rocks thrown at her. The average Israeli and the...

Local right-wing Christian host has play banned at Summerstage

"“Vic Eliason raised a stink. Eliason is an evangelical clergyman in Milwaukee who runs the VCY (Voices of Christian Youth) America Radio Network. He has a show, “Cross Currents,” in Milwaukee, and on August 9, he dedicated his hour-long program to condemning the play...

Absurd prostitution prosecution and hypocritical attack on Obama

Alexis Wright is a zumba instructor in Kennebunk, Maine. She is accused of prostitution with a list of men. A list, she herself created. All acts were consensual. Sex of course between consenting adults is purely legal. Prostitution is the only offense though that is...

2016: Obama's America Producer Dinesh D'Souza Leaves Wife for GF

"Dinesh D’Souza, the conservative Christian producer of the controversial documentary '2016: Obama's America' and President of King's College, is reportedly seeing another woman who is not his wife."

Christian pretends to be gay for a year, see what happens

Timothy Kurek is a young man from Nashville. He grew up in a very religious Christian fundamentalist type home. A home where gays were despised or demonized. He decided to spend a year, being gay. He didn't become gay as did a young man in England who had a stroke did. He...

Is Fox News the propaganda arm of the Christian right-wing?

Fox and Friends (of Fox News) is quite simply, the mouthpiece of the religious right. While they rarely have atheist guests on (a few times a year), they regularly engage in atheist bashing. One of those atheist bashers is Father Morris, a Catholic priest who is obviously on...

Todd Akin of "legitimate rape" fame, on evolution

Todd Akin, the Missouri Congressman who wants to be the next U.S. Senator from that state and who believes that women who are "legitimately raped" don't get pregnant, has a few thoughts on evolution. Well, very few because it is obvious he has never really thought about it...

Death penalty for disobedient children?

Southern Republicans don't believe in evolution or the Big Bang. About 1/2 of the nation doesn't believe in evolution, and unfortunately, Southern Republicans are the most hardcore opponents to believing in it. So it shouldn't be too surprising that Georgian Republican Paul...

Catholic bishops sell pornography and creationism in Kentucky

Did you know the Catholic church in Germany owns a publishing company, Weltbild that sells online, pornographic magazines? Also, it owns a Munich based publishing company, Droemer Knaur, that also sells online pornographic magazines. I don't believe material made for and by...

How atheists are forced to attend chapel in military training

When I was in military basic training, I was not forced to go to chapel. I though was required to clean the barracks with the other "heathens" while those who went to chapel didn't. Of course they had a right to go to chapel, but they should have been required to help clean...

Apple computers apple icon banned in Russia because of religion?

Apple Computers is one of the most famous corporations in the world. Unfortunately they have had employed contractors who make their products, who employ sweatshop conditions. Such as in China. Well in Russia the Russian Orthodox Church, which has become a de facto arm of the...

Gay football player kicked off of team for kissing a man?

Did a high school principal cancel a Cosmetology (hair cutting) class because he thought a student was gay? Well, a teacher says Principal Thomas Amons of Beaumont Independent School District’s Taylor Career and Technology Center in Texas for adults, did just that. The fact...

In Brookfield, WI, there is opposition to the building of an Isla

In Brookfield, WI, there is opposition to the building of an Islamic mosque. Why? Do people really think that elderly Muslim women are going to be plotting terrorism against the U.S. Bank building? I am a humanist and I am not going to defend Islam as the so called religion...