Posted by Adam Brown on Aug 17, 2011 in Featured | 1 comment
Name: JT Eberhard
Born: 1981
Blog: ATHEISM RESOURCE.COM and his personal blog http://wwjtd.net/
Location: Columbus, OH
Former Religion: Baptist
Organization Affiliation: Secular Student Alliance (National Speaker)
Label: Atheist
READ JT’s STORY HERE
“As a writer, JT Eberhard is smart, funny, honest, and totally fearless. As an organizer, he is passionate, dedicated, inspired, and as determined as a bulldog. And, as a speaker, he tears the roof off the sucker. We are insanely lucky to have him on our side.” – Greta Christina
JT Eberhard is a campus...
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Posted by Adam Brown on Aug 16, 2011 in Featured | 0 comments
Name: Hemant Mehta
Born: 1983
Blog: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/
Location: Chicago, IL
Organization Affiliation: Secular Student Alliance and Foundation Beyond Belief (National Speaker)
Label: Atheist
Hemant Mehta graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with degrees in Mathematics and Biology. While there, he also helped establish their first secular student group, Students WithOut Religious Dogma (SWORD). He earned his Masters in Math Education at DePaul University and currently teaches high school math in the suburbs of Chicago.
He has worked with the...
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Posted by Adam Brown on Aug 16, 2011 in Essays | 3 comments
My parents had always had gay friends growing up and, because they were kind and good people, they had also been my friends. I started to wonder if god would really send those good people to hell. So, when I was on the cusp of twenty-one, I began to read the bible and, sure enough, it does condemn homosexuality in no uncertain terms. How could that be? Homosexuals, though immoral perverts, were typically nice people. When I met malicious people such as thieves, bullies, etc, they were despicable and cruel and worthy of contempt. But homosexuals were not like that, they were not criminals....
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Posted by Adam Brown on Aug 12, 2011 in Featured | 7 comments
Name: Amanda Brown
Born: 1986
Email: thesexyatheist1@gmail.com
Location: Shawnee, KS; I grew up in Independence, MO as a member of Assembly of God and Restored Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (sect of Mormon)
Organization Affiliation: Kansas City Atheist Coalition – Director of Philanthropy, Society of Open-Minded Atheists and Agnostics – Director of Recruitment, Contributing Editor for Atheismresource.com, and Student member of the Secular Student Alliance
Label: Atheist, Secular Humanist
About Me: I am truly a therapist at heart. I want to help people in any...
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Posted by Adam Brown on Aug 12, 2011 in Featured | 1 comment
Name: Tyler Curtis
Born: 1989
Email: tcurtis4506@gmail.com
Location: Mount Vernon, WA
Organization affiliation: Skagit Secular Student Alliance , SSA, CFI
Label: Atheist
About you: I’m an atheist because there is no evidence for any god(s). I was raised fairly apathetic towards religion, but grew up attending a Lutheran daycare and Vacation Bible School. I remember trying to believe when I was young, but I don’t recall ever actually believing. After a few years of considering possibilities I concluded that religions were nothing but modern mythologies.
For those of you that...
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