…To tell us about your experience as a freethinker outside the United States for our upcoming episode “Godlessness Abroad.”  Do you live in a sectarian nation?  Can atheists in other countries “come out“? Did you struggle to explain your atheism to a host family as an exchange student?  Did you have to practice or learn […]

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  […]

We haven’t spoken in a while, and even though I have a lot on my mind that I would like to write about, it is still cooking.   So, in the place of any meaningful comment, I give you this. I know, I’m asking you to listen to a prayer at a NASCAR event.   […]

…I bet I’m as tired of seeing this article as I hope Jennifer Fulwiler is. If she’s better now, nice. If not, still don’t cart.

In this episode, Becky, Chad and Sam sort through the exploded office in search of the video. Maybe. … We know there hasn’t been video lately, and we’re working to fix that, but as you can see, things are up in the air at the moment. We’ll have a new and (hopefully, improved) YouTube interface […]

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 […]

Three Ninjas (Jason Brunet) and tangentbot (Mathias Purtlebaugh), special guests from this week’s Ask An Atheist episode, have a live show this Thursday, July 21 at 8 PM at Chop Suey in Seattle.  Show your love for these super dope atheist musicians by showing up!  Tickets available for $7 at ticketweb or at the door.  […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBRSdOTirjk This is (according to the internets) a sketch from the Christian comedy show Fire By Nite which was produced from 1986 to 1994 and was aimed at a teenage audience.  Thus the ultra hip and edgy content.  Uncircumcised Klingons indeed!  I’m such a lame-o, I had no idea Klingons even had human-like penises. This is […]

But it IS about hate sometimes. Hate, ignorance, and a preference for glaring misinformation that confirms already established biases over the truth. You can look at something like the van above, photographed in Oregon, and claim that this is just one insane person who isn’t representative of the views of most people who seem dedicated […]

“Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical,” he told Haldon, “the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats, and diddle little boys. It’s the ones who believe in gods that make the trouble.” — Tyrion Lannister in A Dance with Dragons I make no secret of the fact […]