It just came to my attention that a great mind, pen and mouth died today. After a long battle with oesophageal cancer, and even longer battles with the forces of fundamentalist stupidity, our atheist visibility movement has lost one of its brightest lights. Christopher Hitchens was one of my primary inspirations for becoming an atheist […]

The crew of Ask an Atheist wants to thank all of the people who’ve made our show as successful as it’s been. It’s hard to believe that we’ve been doing this show for almost two years now, or that we’d still be on commercial radio after an entire year! We’re also gratified that our show […]

This week’s look at the funny, the scary and just plain weird passages in humanity’s holy texts comes from listener Paul from Brisbane, Australia. We return the Holy Qu’ran of Islam, which reiterates its horrific depiction of human rights and family values. Qur’an 23:1-6 (Yusuf Ali translation – 1938): The Believers must (eventually) win through—those […]

If you’re a fan of Ask an Atheist, you’ve probably already heard about the “Adopt an Atheist” campaign of the Catholic League, the stage name of perennial blowhard pundit, Bill Donahue. In it, he suggests that Catholics adopt one of us to somehow discover closeted Christians in our community.   How they intend to do […]

As we close out 2011, join the gang at Ask an Atheist for a night of live comedy! To help keep our radio show on the air, we’re holding our second semi-annual comedy event, with all proceeds benefiting the poor and needy, namely us! Comic Lineup includes: Jeremy Whitman, a national touring comic and a […]

This week’s look at the funny, the scary and just plain weird passages in humanity’s holy texts comes from listener Christoph from Germany, we look at the religion of Zoroastrianism, a religion that predates both Christianity and Islam. It has an odd definition of evil. Today’s passage comes from the Avesta, Zoroastrianism’s sacred text Vendidad, […]

My impassioned speech in defense of the King of the Seas at the beginning of last week’s show has not gone unheard! Rob Kelly, the man in charge the excellent Aquaman Shrine fan site and one half of the talent behind the always-entertaining Fire and Water podcast has awarded us a coveted status as official […]

By now, most of you have seen the video of the son of two women, speaking in Iowa. But did you hear about the guy who spoke after him?

Now Pat Robertson is no stranger to saying really offensive and insensitive things. If the Guinness people had a recognized world record for the number of genuinely stupid and prejudiced things one person could speak into a camera or make in a written statement, then the host of the 700 Club would be a hard […]

The Ask an Atheist crew will be doing some volunteer holiday giftwrapping this year, so if you’re in the area we’d love to have you drop by! Were going to be at the Barnes & Noble in Tukwila, WA, wrapping shoppers’ books for the holidays and accepting donations that help keep our little show on […]