ON THE REJECTION OF ATHEIST ENDORSEMENTS BY WASHINGTON UNITED FOR MARRIAGE On July 13, 2012, the producers, cast and crew of the Tacoma-based “Ask an Atheist” radio show hosted a 24-hour telethon fundraiser for same-sex marriage equality in Washington State. Prior to the telethon, we had assurances from Washington United for Marriage that our donations […]

ADDENDUM: Please help us get answers from the campaigns! Let them know that these questions are important to you and that atheists are a constituency that needs to be answered and courted. A list of contact phone numbers can be found here.   As Sam and I mentioned on the last episode of our show, […]

Before I was an atheist, I was adogmatic. Mike recently wrote an excellent article about why faith doesn’t do the job people think it does.   Mike takes a different approach than I normally would.   I think people like our Facebook friend conflate faith with expectation, which is an etymological rather than cosmological problem, […]

We just received the following comment on our Facebook page: I recently read an article on your webpage mentioning “hit-and-run theists” who comment here, and figured I might as well take my shot: Empiricism, the idea on which scientific inquiry is based, suggests that human beings can know the truth, but can never know when […]

As I promised in today/tonight/tomorrow’s Stream-a-Thon, here is the best voicemail we have received so far in 2012. Warning: it is not nice. It is not friendly. It is not for children. As we said in the Stream-a-thon, if you do something artful/musical with this voicemail, you’ll (probably) get some neat Ask an Atheist swag! […]