Tag: American Atheists
Atheists in Fox Houses
Imagine the following: You’re fifteen, bored and begrudgingly sitting with your family on the living room sofa, putzing around on MineCraft Pocket Edition while your folks watch Fox. For the past year, you’ve held your tongue, not commenting on their faith, their friends, or their frenzied fear mongering towards anyone “brown” or non-Christian. It was [...]
The Closeted Atheist & The Billboard
“Don’t believe in God? You are not alone.” Last year those eight words, on a billboard on a random Orlando street, were the catalyst for my coming out as an Atheist. I’m living, breathing proof that atheist billboards work and get people out of their closets and into secular activism. People are closeted because they [...]
A Minority, Within A Minority, Within A Minority
I’ve never met anyone like me.. and it can be very lonely. I am a Black female Atheist: a minority within a minority within a minority. My mother, father and brothers have disowned me. I am thirty something in a childless, interracial marriage. I have a graduate degree but make less money than I did [...]
Donation Appreciation
I am now the member of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Americans United, and American Atheists! Two generous Twitter users, @APOVMentarch (Pierre Vachon) and @DaylightAtheism (Adam Lee) have made this possible. These two gentlemen do not know me very well, but their belief in my potential is inspiring. Emily reached out personally to ask others [...]
Are You an Atheist Slacktivist?
One could say that there are many brands of Atheists, ranging from apathetic to “militant”. Near the apathetic end of the spectrum you’ll find the Atheist Slacktivist. The Urban Dictionary explains that “Slacktivism” is the ideology that people want to appear to be doing something socially responsible and helpful for a particular cause without actually [...]
Playing Into Their Hands
I recently helped coordinate a protest against 6 ton, black granite, Ten Commandments display placed in front of a Florida County Courthouse. The $20,000 monument was built through private funding and was dedicated during a National Day of Prayer ceremony. The problem, of course, is that the Judeo-Christian monument sits on government owned land, therefore [...]
Partisan Gridlock Interview
Friday 2MAR2012 I was on Partisan Gridlock with Geoff Berg on 90.1 FM KPFT Houston. Geoff invited me to the studio to discuss Reason Rally & American Atheists‘ newest billboards. My interview is online now, and I encourage you to ‘like’ it on YouTube and share with others so that they may have more information about [...]
Celebrate Secular Values
There are many people living comfortably in strongly secular communities that do not feel the presence and pressure of religious organizations in their midst. They may even be oblivious to the pressures of religious bias in the law and its widespread effects. It’s different in Texas. Here in Houston, I feel the hand of fundamentalists [...]
