It irks me. It doesn't hurt me, and it doesn't cost me anything. It just irks me when hotels assume their patrons are Christian (or Mormon) and leave their god texts in the hotel rooms. It makes me feel -- solidly second-class. The Borgata is equal-opportunity, and provides all sorts of religious reference materials on request, at the front desk, but nobody is assumed to be anything. I stay there w...

ATHEIST COMING OUT PARTY SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 2008 TO FEATURE KAGIN, MEHTA, PARAMORE & MORE! "It's OK to not believe..." THE NATION'S first Atheist Coming Out Party will take place on Saturday, August 2, 2008. The event brings together a roster of national, regional and local groups including Students for Freethought (Ohio State University); American Atheists; Secular Student Alliance; Michigan Athe...

from the acting president American Atheists in the Future Frank R. Zindler Just several weeks after I became Acting President of American Atheists, I discovered that the roof on the American Atheists Center in Cranford, New Jersey had been leaking for some time and water had already done considerable damage to books and other materials in our stock room. Worse yet, there were indications that the p...

Pope Urges Youths to Spurn Materialism Pope Benedict News, World NewsText SizeAAASYDNEY, Australia (July 20) -- Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday a "spiritual desert" was spreading throughout the world and he challenged young people to shed the greed and cynicism of their time to create a new age of hope for humankind. Speaking at a Mass before some 350,000 Roman Catholic pilgrims and a likely televisi...

http://www.texasfreethoughtconvention.com Friends, Hello from Texas! I made a video today about the new Bible classes in Texas public high schools. I used a large boarded-up church as my background. Cost: Priceless. http://youtube.com/watch?v=pEzBytmleag Essentially I'm challenging Atheist and/or state-church separation minded public high school students to take those Bible classes, and bring up ou...