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AaA Presents: Delivered From Dogma!

by Sam Mulvey

Join the cast and crew of Ask an Atheist on September 7th for a night of live comedy at the Jewelbox Theater located inside of The Rendezvous Restaurant and Lounge in Belltown! Your Co-Headliners for the evening are: Ask an Atheist co-creator and host Jeremy Whitman is the son of a preacher, the nephew of […]

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Stream-a-thon Press Release

by Sam Mulvey

ATHEIST RADIO SHOW HOLDS TELETHON FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY  TACOMA – On July thirteenth through the fourteenth, the cast and crew of the Tacoma-based radio show, “Ask an Atheist” undertook an endurance contest for civil rights. For twenty-four hours, the sleep-deprived heathens put on an internet telethon from their studio in Tacoma’s Oldtown to raise money […]

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Secret Recording Today!

by Sam Mulvey

Mike, Sam and Becky are going to be recording some segments for tomorrow’s show, since we’re going to be at an important engagement.    If you’d like to hear some behind the scenes action, check out the feed! We’ll have the site in live mode while we do it, or you can go to our […]

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Counterpoint: It's Not Just Religion

by Sam Mulvey

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, […]

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The Failures of Faith

by Mike Gillis

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 […]

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As promised, this year's best voicemail!

by Sam Mulvey

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! […]

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Ask an Atheist Stream-a-thon This Weekend!

by Sam Mulvey

This weekend is going to be a big weekend for Ask an Atheist– we’ll finally be talking about Scientology!  But first, we’re going to work on civil rights here in Washington. To help put things into perspective, I’ll provide some history from online sources: Washington passed it’s own version of the Defense of Marriage Act […]

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'God Should Use Cryptography' and 'I Called It'

by Sam Mulvey

Alright, so our friends Jerry DeWitt and Teresa MacBain of the The Clergy Project are continuing to bring important points and a lot of visibility to our happy movement.  Most importantly, they’ve hit the big leagues:  attention from the Westboro Baptist Church, the dank brain rendering plant in the otherwise friendly town of Topeka. Yeah, […]

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BILLY!!1! Give Me Your CQNW Ads!

by Sam Mulvey

People continue to love the Camp Quest Northwest Billy ads, put together by Ask an Atheist cast member Kyle and friend of the show John. We recently received this email from “The Prof”: Thanks for the mention on your show (3rd June) regarding Billy and the Devil ads for campquest. I have since found an […]

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