This week, The Thinking Atheist hosted a podcast on how religious beliefs and cultures influence sexuality, featuring our own Greta Christina, Jen Peeples of The Atheist Experience, and Dr. Darrel Ray of Recovering From Religion. Oh, and I was there too! It was a lot of fun, and I hope you’ll give it a listen.
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Dec 22 2012
Come see us tonight
FTB’s own ZOMGitsCriss is hosting a fundraiser marathon for American Atheists on BlogTV today, and Heather and I will be on at 7 PM Eastern time. Please stop by and say hello!
Nov 23 2012
The Christian’s Thanksgiving mistake
John MacArthur of the Washington Times has a real stumper for all of us atheists: if there is no God, then why do we feel gratitude? Ingratitude is dishonorable by anyone’s reckoning, but to be willfully ungrateful toward the Creator is to deny an essential aspect of our own humanity. The shame of such ingratitude …
Nov 05 2012
On giving my first speech
We just got back from the Florida Secular Rally in Tallahassee, and there’s only one way I can describe it: Awesome. This was actually my first time attending any atheist event, and in was fantastic in so many ways. While there wasn’t a massive turnout – Aron noted a distinct lack of P.Z. – this …
Nov 04 2012
My speech at the Florida Secular Rally: “The Dogma of Gender”
Remarks as prepared for delivery: Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you very much for having me. For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Zinnia Jones. I’ve been a voice of atheism for the past four years, on YouTube and on Freethought Blogs. I was invited here to talk about transgender issues and …
Oct 26 2012
Speech! Speech! Speech!
I’ll be giving a speech on trans issues and the atheist movement at the Florida Secular Rally in Tallahassee next Saturday around 4:00 PM. Rebecca Watson, Jessica Ahlquist, AronRa, Dave Silverman, Teresa MacBain and others will also be speaking throughout the day. Admission is free, so if you’re in the area, please stop by and say hello!
Sep 16 2012
Are they really religious? Yes!
Following widespread attacks and protests at US embassies in the Middle East in reaction to a film insulting Islam, several people have linked to a story from February by Egyptian author Alaa Al Aswany. In the article, titled “Are They Really Religious?”, Aswany criticizes Egyptian Muslims who follow the letter of their interpretation of Islamic …
Sep 08 2012
Names have power, such as…
My partner and I have recently been reading The Lightning Thief with our 9-year-old son. One of the recurring ideas is that “names have power”, which is usually meant as “don’t say someone’s name or they’ll get pissed off”. While it initially seemed absurd that Greek gods and other creatures would somehow be okay with …
Aug 10 2012
Thunderf00t admits to sending my private emails to Michael Payton of CFI Canada
For those who rightfully wanted further confirmation of Thunderf00t’s intrusion into the FTB private mailing list (details here), Thunderf00t himself has now helpfully provided that: So a week or so ago a guy called Michael Payton who works for CFI Canada (Center for Inquiry) put up a tweet about finding FTB unreadable. Now it turns …
Aug 10 2012
Thunderf00t’s unauthorized access and leaking of the private FTB mailing list
Recently, the Freethought Blogs staff received evidence indicating that some conversations from the private mailing list for FTB bloggers had apparently been leaked to outside parties by Thunderf00t. These conversations had taken place on the list over a month after Thunderf00t had been removed from Freethought Blogs and the private mailing list. Upon examination of …
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