I’ve even gotten comments to the effect of why can I not leave poor Ken Ham alone. All for criticizing his visit to a Texas home school conference to sell people on his supposed advantages of teaching their children Young Earth Creationism over actual science. He responded on his facebook with this challenge… This […]
Oh THAT guy?! Nevermind, not in our town.
A couple months ago, I got an invitation to participate in what would have been my first ever face-to-face moderated debate before a live audience. I didn’t get all the details, so I’m speculating a bit. I think the idea started with a high school debate team wanting to pit theism vs atheism, and someone […]
Talkin’ Politics at NAPCon
I don’t usually like to talk about politics because it is largely a matter of opinion, and I prefer to deal in matters of fact. As an activist in the atheist community, I have noticed that people are usually happy to hear me talk about science, even though scientists are, well they have low tolerance […]
Showing Solidarity with Black Nonbelievers when you aren’t Black
Last weekend, Aron and I went to a presentation about the history of Black Freethought by Alix Jules hosted by Houston Oasis. Right now the Houston Atheists boast the largest group of freethinkers in Texas with a population of 2,078. Salute! We happen to know Alix from being members of DFW’s Fellowship of Freethought the largest group […]
Finding courage to keep the darkness of ignorance at bay Part I
While there may be places on Earth that equal the darkness of Mordor of Middle Earth in terms of the very real evil of ignorance more than Texas this year; that won’t be from a lack of effort on the part of the Texas Legislature. Secularists here are already beleaguered trying to stamp out the encroachments […]
Constant Attacks on Education
Sometimes the research I have to do is nothing short of disheartening. This weekend that that included Mark Chancey’s report on problematic religious studies in Texas public schools. http://www.tfn.org/site/DocServer/TFNEF_ReadingWritingReligionII.pdf?docID=3481 As if that weren’t already bad enough, some Texans also want to blindly follow Louisiana’s misdirection in their attempts to undermine public education, by adopting the […]
Being a closeted atheist can still cost you –so I am coming out.
About 7 years ago, in West Texas, the childhood home of G.W. Bush, I realized I didn’t believe in any god. Even though I later married Aron Ra, a loud, proud and publicly known atheist, I have kept my atheism out of the public arena of ideas. Six years ago, I learned that even posting […]
Do I have to axe?
There are a number of people in the news lately accidentally shooting themselves in the foot, or in the butt, or accidentally shooting whomever is next in line at the grocery store. Then of course we have some orange-haired joker going off on Batman with real 3D effects. Whenever this sort of thing happens outside of Texas, it seems to prompt […]
Compelling your pledge of allegiance to a flag…
Guest blog by Aron’s wife. And to a Republic for which the flag stands Which people insist is one nation under God Who is for most people mutually exclusive As a public school teacher I am required by the state to lead the pledge every school day. As an American atheist, this daily pledge is […]
Potholer54 on the Magic Sandwich Show
Every two weeks, I usually join D.P.R.Jones, Thunderf00t, and C0nc0rdance on BlogTV for the Magic Sandwich Show. Over the last year, we have had such guests as Lone Frank, Andy Thompson, Zack Kopplin, Eugenie Scott, Barbara Forrest, Sean Faircloth, Myriam Namaze, P.Z. Myers, Matt Dillahunty, James Randi, and Richard Dawkins. This week we’re excited to […]