Mike Gillis is co-creator, and co-host of Ask an Atheist. He hosts the Radio vs. the Martians! and Mike and Pól Save the Universe! podcasts. He also enjoys comic books, the Planet of the Apes, and the band Queen.
As we mentioned on last week’s episode, our very own Rich Lyons, spent years in a fundamentalist cult that believed that secular movies and TV shows were the work of the Devil. As a consequence of such, there is a 25+ year hole in Rich’s pop culture experience. It’s time to plug Rich’s hole! Can […]
The Christian Post, the website that whined about atheists who aren’t properly sad about not being Christians is at it again. Again. This time they’re playing that oldest of all games: No True Scotsman. This is one of the most common rationalizations religious folks toss out when one of their flock does something embarrassing or […]
Listener David from Westminster, California emailed us and asked: The “Scripture Says…What???” feature on your show is great. I suspect most of my theistic friends have no idea that the quotes you give are in their holy books. I’d like to share the quotes with them. But, I’m never going to get them to listen […]
One of my chief complaints about religious belief is that it takes the individual work out of ethical decisions. Rather than thinking through one’s moral dilemmas with reason, intuition and empathy, the Abrahamic religions in particular — Judaism, Christianity and Islam — tend to prescribe a system where one just submits to authority figures on […]
The last episode of Ask an Atheist unveiled a new – and possibly weekly – segment we like to call “Scripture Says…What?”, where we look at the funniest, scariest and just plain weirdest passages in holy texts like the Bible, the Qur’an, the Bhagavad Gita, or even Dianetics. Our first passage was from the Christian […]