Salon Asks: Why Aren’t Women Atheists More Visible?
Salon, which has a habit of publishing pieces that treat atheists unfavorably, posted an article entitled “Five Reasons There Aren’t More Women in Atheism” by Soraya Chemaly (who is on the Secular...
View ArticleI Still Say the Christian Church is Anti-Gay, Anti-Women, Anti-Science,...
Last week, CNN posted a column I wrote on how atheists are helping drive young people away from the church. Christian apologist Robin Schumacher took issue with it and has started to respond at the...
View ArticleChristian Pastor: My Sons Will Be Taught to Be Independent; My Daughters Will...
I was going to skip this, but Pastor Steven Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona was talking about how all sins are not equal and this was the screengrab: How could I resist...
View ArticleHere’s the Most Anti-Woman, Anti-Gay Sermon You’ve Heard in a Long Time
Pastor Steven Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona wants to make sure we’re ashamed of the right things: On his list? Nakedness (9:55 mark). But really, only when it involves...
View ArticleIsrael Alters Science Textbooks For Religious State Schools, Deleting All the...
Until this year, all state schools in Israel used the same science books. Heading into the new school year, however, that will no longer be the case, as the government has decided that religious...
View ArticleVatican Excommunicates Priest for Supporting Ordination of Women and Gay...
You have to do something really awful to be excommunicated from the Catholic Church these days. In Melbourne, Australia, The Age notes that the only priests in the region who are no longer welcome to...
View ArticleNebraska’s Supreme Court Has Rejected a Foster Child’s Request for An Abortion
On Friday, the Nebraska Supreme Court refused a 16-year-old girl’s request for an abortion. The girl, who is a ward of the state after being taken away from her abusive parents, lacks a guardian who...
View ArticleMormon Women Turned Away from All-Male Conference on Priesthood
Members of the group Ordain Woman, an organization dedicated to gender equality within Mormonism, were recently barred from a convention concerning male priesthood because, well, they’re heretics. “I...
View ArticleWhy Did This Christian Group Fire a Divorced Woman but Not Fire Divorced Men?
The video below, part of The Atheist Voice series, discusses how InterVarsity Christian Fellowship recently fired a woman after she got divorced… even though they didn’t fire men who did the exact same...
View ArticleA Happy Song to Remind Women That They Shouldn’t Drive
As you know, Saudi Arabia doesn’t want women to drive because… ovaries. Which was the motivation for this simplistic and downright-catchy song: The comedian, Hisham Fageeh, is smiling when he sings, so...
View ArticleKate Smurthwaite Responds to a Nun Who Claims Atheists Have ‘Faith’
The BBC recently held a televised conference in which 100 women from different backgrounds and faiths were invited to discuss pertinent issues. Atheists were represented by the excellent Kate...
View ArticleTexas High School Holds Assembly Featuring Misogynistic Christian Speaker, So...
What were administrators at Richardson High School thinking? Yesterday, the Dallas, Texas-based school brought in motivational speaker Justin Lookadoo to speak to the students. His topic? Well, let’s...
View ArticleA Christian Conference Last Week Had Over 100 Presenters, So Why Were Only 4...
The video below, part of The Atheist Voice series, discusses the recent controversy involving a Christian conference and how more than 95% of the speakers were male: (For more on the story, read this.)...
View ArticleThis Israeli Ad Agency Figured Out a Clever Way to Combat Vandalism Against...
Here’s an advertising tactics atheists might want to use with their own billboards. In Bnei Brak, an Israeli city with a super-conservative religious population, a lot of men don’t like to see images...
View ArticleThe Solution to Gender-Based Segregation is Not More Gender-Based Segregation
Earlier this year, physicist Lawrence Krauss was scheduled to debate Islam lecturer Hamza Andreas Tzortzis on the question of whether atheism or Islam made more sense. Just as the debate was about to...
View ArticleA Black Eye For Feminism and Atheism: Watch This Nasty Mob Attack Catholics...
My mind is still reeling after I just watched the footage of a recent feminist protest outside a cathedral in San Juan, Argentina. In the NSFW video, shot on November 24, the pro-choice demonstrators...
View ArticleJesus Visits Sarah Silverman — and Hits the Spot
… in which the now-divinely-inspired Jewish comedienne proposes a male-masturbation law that is not for the squeamish. Enjoy.
View ArticleThe Fundamentalist Gender Pyramid
I think nakedpastor forgot to include Pastor Mark Driscoll standing on top of the whole structure.
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