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Thanks to Hemant Mehta of the Friendly Atheist, here is a portion of the inspiring speech from the valedictorian of Greenwood High School, where the school administration let the students vote that they could have a graduation prayer, only to have this plan challenged by the class valedictorian, with whom the courts sided: You may not [...]
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Greenwood High School Valedictorian Eric Workman Stands Up For Separation Of Church And State
May 30th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Christianity, Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta, Religion, Separation of Church and State 
Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Commencement Speeches, Eric Workman, Establishment Clause, Federal District Judge Sarah Evans Barker, First Amendment, Greenwood Community School Corporation, Greenwood High School, James Kaylor, School Prayer, Thomas Jefferson 
No Comments »Atheism, Albuquerque, And “Weird Al” Yankovic
October 14th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Recently Hemant Mehta did an excellent job of mobilizing criticism of Albuquerque city councilman Don Harris for creating campaign literature that attacked his opponent for, among other things, being an atheist and contributing to a “Charles Darwin” scholarship. Harris, to his credit apologized for trying to exploit his opponents views on religion in the campaign, [...]
Posted in Atheism, Civil Liberties, Comedy, Cultural Secularism, Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta, Hilarious, Music, Music Videos, News, News Discussion, Parody, Political Secularism, Religious Rights, Satire, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Videos Tags: "That's Your Horoscope For Today", "Weird Al" Yankovic, Albuquerque, Albuquerque City Council Race, Don Harris 3 Comments »Self-Righteous Atheist
September 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Hemant Mehta has an incredibly petty post in which he picks on Serena Williams for losing her temper and cursing at a line judge. He needlessly exploits her human failing to try to score political points against her religion: I don’t think swearing is some horrible sin. But the outburst just shows how a religious [...]
Through Words Or Through Deeds?
August 30th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Hemant Mehtamakes the case that even more than strong debating points, atheists really need to draw people as “salt and light” if you will: Yes, there are arguments against any god’s existence and arguments against the truth of any religious text. We shouldn’t stop making them. But I don’t think these arguments, as logical as [...]
Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Corruption Of Children’s Intellectual Judgment
August 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Earlier today, I challenged Rod Dreher’s recent post wherein he lamented the difficulties we have in overcoming our minds’ propensities for rationalizations. In that same post he had argued from the experience of his own loss of Catholic faith that the intellect was an insufficient ground for religious beliefs and that the will needed to [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Christianity, Cultural Secularism, Daniel Dennett, Disambiguating Faith, Faith, Featured, Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta, Religion, Secularism, Why I Am Not A Christian Tags: Affective Value Perception, Atheist Alliance, Crunchy Con, Dale McGowan, Emotional Reasoning, Laci Green, Parenting, Parenting Beyond Belief, Rationalization, Reason and Emotions, Rod Dreher, The Heart, Value Perception 12 Comments »Liveblogging The Creation Museum Tour Twitter Feed Highlights
August 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Camels With Hammers pares down the first 5 hours of the twitter feed of visitors to the Creation Museum and offers you the highlights. Start reading from the bottom of the thread for chronological flow and then join the real time discussion at #cregozerg. Once you’ve read this thread be sure to check out my [...]
Posted in Atheism, Creationism, Friendly Atheist, Fundamentalism, Hemant Mehta, Intelligent Design, PZ Myers, Religion and Science Tags: Bacon, BlagHag, Creation Museum, Ken Ham 2 Comments »Pastafarians: The Most Charitable Human Beings
July 31st, 2009 Daniel Fincke Friendly Atheist Hemant Mehta reports: I’ve mentioned before how atheists are atop the leaderboard at Kiva — a website that “allows people to lend money via the Internet to microfinance institutions in developing countries which in turn lend the money to small businesses…” It’s a wonderful charity. The 5,000+ members of the Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Hemant Mehta, Religion Tags: Charity, Church Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster, Kiva, Mormons, Pastafarians No Comments »Psychotic Reasoning, The Will To Believe, And Religious Interpretations Of The Mentally Ill
July 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Yesterday morning, The Friendly Atheist’s Hemant Mehta analyzed stories of mothers who murdered their babies under religiously interpreted delusions with a critical eye towards the religions which put certain fantasies in their heads. In reply to criticisms of his making this connection that came from skeptigirl (in this terrific post on psychosis you should read), [...]
Posted in Atheism, Epistemic Justification, Epistemology, Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Virtues, News Discussion, Psychology, Religion and Science, Why I Am Not A Christian Tags: A.J. Burger, Andrea Yates, Ascetics, Belief Without Sufficient Evidence, Demon Possession, Dena Schlosser, Epilepsy, Ethics of Belief, Evidentialism, Mental Illness, Mystics, Otty Sanchez, Prophecy, Psychopathy, Religious Justification, Saints, skeptigirl, Superstition, Visions, Voltaire, William James, WK Clifford 1 Comment »Absurdities And Atrocities
July 28th, 2009 Daniel Fincke This story is beyond horrific: The scene was so gruesome investigators could barely speak: A 3 1/2-week-old boy lay dismembered in the bedroom of a single-story house, three of his tiny toes chewed off, his face torn away, his head severed and his brains ripped out. Officers called to the home early Sunday found the [...]
Posted in Atheism, Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta, News, News Discussion, Psychology, Religion Tags: Andrea Yates, Dena Schlosser, Otty Sanchez, Psychopathy, Voltaire No Comments »South African Judge Candidate On His Atheism
July 23rd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Really interesting statement in response to ridiculous questions put to him: An Eastern Cape candidate judge caused a stir before the Judicial Service Commission when he told members he left priesthood for the law because he concluded that there is no God. Senior Counsel Torquil Paterson told the JSC: “I left the church for a [...]
Posted in Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta, Uncategorized Tags: Jeff Radebe, Marxism, Sonia Sotomayor, Torquil Paterson No Comments »
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