This a a video response to YouTube user: xxoo54‘s video, “atheist and their god destroyed and left begging!!!!!“. Even that title reeks of cliche’, fallacy, and anger. Our response video is a little long (in internet terms, that is), but we’re trying out a new format we may revisit from time to time. Let us … Continue reading
Category Archives: Video
Our Tour of a Hell House: Recap
The “Tour of Hell” is an evangelical Hell House put on by the Abundant Life Church in La Marquee, Texas. If you aren’t familiar with Hell Houses (or Judgment Houses), Wikipedia describes them as: …haunted attractions typically run by American, fundamentalist Christian churches orparachurch organizations. These depict sin, the torments of the damned in Hell, and usually conclude with a depiction ofheaven. … Continue reading
BoD Podcast Ep1: Our Religious Upbringings
In our premiere podcast we discuss our own individual religious upbringings and some of the factors which brought us each to our transitions to atheism. We are still in the process of deciding on the right platform on which to host our podcast. For now it will be available directly via … Continue reading
Street Interviews: Proxy Bible Stories
YouTuber Essenceofthought recently put together an interesting challenge wherein bible passages, redressed as historical and current events, are posed to believers in order to see how they respond to these moral dilemmas without their biblical context. We decided to take this idea out to the street and try them on some random people. The people … Continue reading
Kicked Out of Pulpit Freedom Sunday
On Sunday, Oct. 7, more than 1,000 pastors nationwide planned to defy their restrictions on political candidate endorsements by preaching from their pulpits about who their members should vote for in what they are calling “Pulpit Freedom Sunday”. These churches believe that their rights to Freedom of Speech are being violated and are daring the IRS … Continue reading
Crashing a Faith-Healing
Well, maybe not “crashing” per se… but you’ll get our gist. At a local faith-healing event, David demonstrates how the “miracle” performed actually works, and he debates with Pastor Lamont Melrose of the Potters House Christian Fellowship Church (Pasadena, TX) amid his own congregation. ► 2011 news story: Mom upset about religious haunted house Continue reading
Ra VS Ray: The Radio Debate
Last night’s live debate between Aron Ra, the popular atheist YouTuber and Texas State-Director of American Atheists, and Ray Comfort, the Christian apologist and host of the Way of the Master series, also known as The Banana Man. There was heavy traffic on the Radio Paul’s Radio Rants site for this anticipated informal debate, and … Continue reading
Is an Atheist’s Life Easier than a Christian’s?
The YouTube apologist “jezuzfreek777” asserts in his latest video that it’s much more difficult to live as a Christian, while atheists get to write their own ticket and do whatever they want. My response is short, and there was plenty I could have added. But seeing as this fellow clearly has a Christian persecution complex, I … Continue reading
Living as an Atheist: My Response
The sociology department of Berkeley University is currently conducting an academic study of atheists . If you would like to participate in this study, there are links at the bottom of this entry. In addition to this study, Cristina Rad has started an open YouTube Tag on this subject, featuring 5 selected questions from the study. … Continue reading
Hug An Atheist: A Documentary About Atheism in America
There is one week left to help fund “Hug An Atheist“. Hug an Atheist is a film about atheism in the USA. More specifically a film about atheists: the stories of people who have come out as atheists, the stories of people who are actively campaigning, and the struggles they’ve had to deal with, the … Continue reading