As You Begin Your Holiday Shopping…
Just a reminder to anyone who plans to shop online this holiday season: If you’re buying anything on Amazon in the near future, please use this link to get to the website! If you do that, a portion of your spending will come back to me and I will smile. Last year, a few people mentioned that they would’ve done this had they known about the link — I didn’t provide it and they bought their Amazon goodness regardless — so I’m trying to prev

The “War on Christmas” in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
In Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, local officials have allowed a Nativity scene to be placed near a local public fountain. This is illegal, of course, but the PA Nonbelievers (PAN) took the high road in dealing with this. They wanted to put up a sign near the Nativity Scene which would read “Celebrating Solstice — Honoring Atheist War Veterans.” Nice. So how did that work out…? Earlier this month, PAN Capital Area director Carl Silverman of Camp Hill wrote the borough a letter stating

My Thanks
by Jesse Galef Thanksgiving is my favorite American holiday. Its connection to religion is only peripheral so we atheists can participate easily, it celebrates one of humanity’s best attributes, and it only tangentially invokes our history of slaughtering the indigenous population (not as badly as Columbus Day, at least). I treat Thanksgiving a bit like liberal religious individuals treat prayer. Gratitude is a powerful emotion and I find it genuinely does me good to express it. There’s real value in reflection and appreciation for the good things in life. I think PZ Myers might be

Tree of Knowledge Will Go Up on Monday
For the past couple years, the Tree of Knowledge has gone up in West Chester outside the Chester County Courthouse, thanks to the Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia. It’s a great monument to human thought: This year, new size restrictions were put in place that

Interview with Ray Comfort
Ray Comfort is the man responsible for the recent distribution of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (with a 50-page introduction explaining why it’s all junk science and how Darwin is connected to Hitler) at college campuses across the country. He distributed the books a day earlier than he said he would. On Tuesday, he announced that his ministry will be giving away