Sam struggles to make sense of the New Zealand mosque massacre with the help of Josh and Warb. They analyze Trump’s place in the rhetoric of violent white supremacy, celebrate a teenage hero from Oz, and re-examine the Card Line in light of an “offensive” SNL sketch. News Muslims Attending Mosque on the Traditional Prayer […]
Recently, a frequent listener of Ask an Atheist gave us some feedback regarding the show’s tendency towards “bashing religion”. The listener stated that if it were their show about their own faith, they’d prefer to tackle philosophical conundrums and historical insights, rather than criticize the faiths of others. Unfortunately, most of atheists’ histories were recorded by the people who persecuted them, and those histories ain’t pretty…
Sam and Mike are guests on KLAY AM 1180’s “Equal Time Radio” to discuss Ask an Atheist’s candidate questionnaire.
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, […]