Mike Tidmus

FFRF’s newest message, showing the face of a penny saying “In Reason We Trust,” is debuting in Tampa (graphic: Freedom from Religion Foundation) From Freedom from Religion Foundation: The nation’s largest association of freethinkers (atheists and agnostics) hopes heads will turn to view a “mini-blitz” of 20 billboards placed throughout the Tampa and St. Petersburg [...]

The war on religion (video: JesusSavesAtCitibank at YouTube)

The Islamic fundamentalist who threatened South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone has been arrested by the FBI. Zachary Chesser was stopped while attempting to board a plane in New York City after being placed on a no-fly list. Chesser, who also goes by Abu Talhah al Amrikee, wrote a post at the radical [...]

According to a report from the Courage Campaign, the National Organization for Marriage’s Brian Brown has had the police violate the Constitutional rights of a film crew covering today’s sparsely attended rally: Maybe Brown is concerned about our work documenting the rally because, yet again, the turnout today for the NOM rally in Annapolis was [...]

On 9 July 2010, the Family Research Council’s Peter Sprigg chatted with Fox News about sex education (video: iloveJesus420 at YouTube)

The con women are collectively miffed that three “activist judges” have the audacity to imagine that grown-up speech is covered by the First Amendment. Knickers squarely knotted, the con women go on and on about “decency” standards, but they don’t have the decency to get into the unhealthy effects of, the damage done to society [...]

We already knew that America’s leading consumer of online porn is the Mormon theocracy of Utah. Now we have some very interesting stats on the international über-kinky porn-consumption front. The country’s attorney general has slammed and banned Facebook for blasphemy and those cheeky cartoons, but there are quite a few channels the Islamic Republic of [...]

“When it comes to bullshit, big-time, major league bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims, religion. No contest. No contest. Religion. Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in [...]

“I think it’s perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don’t know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it’s because he’s ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they’re responsible [...]

“Just when I start believing there is no hope for our country I get a little reminder from my God that all is not lost. It was reported June 29 that a billboard sign sponsored by a North Carolina atheist organization had been vandalized. The ad reads, “One Nation Indivisible.” It seems someone didn’t think [...]

“If people want to spend their money to tell everyone they don’t believe in God, the joy, beauty, and incredible greatness of America is that we let them do it and don’t shoot them for it … What I would hope is that people who believe, as I do, in the power of Jesus Christ [...]

Welcome to United States of Jesus Christ (video: iloveJesus420 at YouTube) Real smart. Teaching American students to neither think nor reason is such a good idea. This pervasive aversion to critical thinking might explain stuff like this: “[A] new Marist poll finds that more than a quarter – 26 percent – of Americans polled couldn’t [...]

“Like their anti-communist, paranoid predecessors, some people decided to change the text by inserting the words “under God” after the word “nation.” “At the very least, this is a criminal act of vandalism, demonstrating that, despite all claims to the contrary, being religious doesn’t make you a moral, law abiding citizen. In this case, it [...]

The “One Nation Indivisible” billboard on Billy Graham Parkway has been vandalized (photo: via The Southern Atheist Gentleman) It appears intolerant theofascism has once again reared its sad little head. A billboard, sponsored by the North Carolina Secular Association and about which I wrote earlier, has been defaced by vandals. The billboard raised the ire [...]

There’s another atheist bus advertising controversy brewing. The big bad meanies over at the Freedom From Religion Foundation are running a bus ad campaign in Chigaco that reads: “Sleep in on Sundays.” Gasp. O the humanity! Needless to say, some members of the faith community are managing to make themselves look like hapless fools and [...]