One week before the 2016 Election, Bill Maher sat with President Obama and discussed atheism, among other topics for Real Time with Bill Maher. I wish he had made a stronger statement, but overall it wasn’t bad. There is a strange history behind this interview – Maher contributed $1 million towards President Obama’s campaign, and …
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Jun 23
An Attempted Conversation with a Muslim from Saudi Arabia
The man in the blue shirt with the beard approached the Ask-An-Atheist table today and said that he is a Muslim from Saudi Arabia and had some questions for us. This is the weekend after the Orlando shooting by a Muslim in the name of ISIS, so I was particularly interested in hearing what he …
Jun 20
The Muslim Skateboarder from Egypt
The interaction started off a bit hostile and confusing. While sitting at the “Ask An Atheist” table, 2 men approached at the same time, so I assumed they were together. The man in the red shirt was calm and smiling, and said he is a Christian and had some questions. The other man, in a …
Jun 18
The Rude Return of AngryMan
The vast majority of people who talk to us are very pleasant, even when they disagree with our cause. After 4 years of sponsoring a weekly booth in Balboa Park, we’ve not yet had to ask that anyone be arrested. There is a man who has approached the group on at least 4 occasions within …
Jun 17
The Ultimate Proof that Prayer Fails: Church Massacres
Reasonable people know that prayer fails 100% of the time, as shown by studies of prayer and detailed on many sites such as WhyWontGodHealAmputees. Today is the 1 year anniversary of the day that God was yet again “asleep at the wheel” and did nothing at all to stop a killer from shooting to death …