I have an update on the egregious violation of its citizens' rights that the Uniontown, OH School Board committed and I reported here.

In Uniontown, OH, the Lake Local School District's mission statement (pdf) states that they believe "the belief in God and religious freedom are important." This is an absurd oxymoron. How can they, in the same sentence proclaim the importance of religious freedom and that "belief in God" is important? Religious freedom MUST include the right not to believe. Otherwise, how can there be said to be religious freedom at all?

I found this terrific story over at ExChristian.net that really struck me. His story is so similar to my own, which I describe in How I Became an Atheist. Read it and watch my video and you will get a sense of how difficult it is to throw off the oppressive beliefs of Christianity or any religion.

Over at The Friendly Atheist I found this entry about how NYC will start seeing atheist sponsored advertisements on their Busses. This is a great move, I think we should try something like this down here in Atlanta, GA. Here's an picture of the ad:

Many of you may have noticed that comments were not showing up on the various items that accepted comments. This has been going on for quite some time and I just now figured out why. I am not sure how it happened but the special "User" that is attached to all anonymous comments had been deleted. Now, I need to work on preventing all the spam comments.

Thanks,

AL

In this article EURweb.com is reporting that Disney is being accused by a Christian group of giving preferential treatment to Gays and Lesbians. The premise of these Christians is ridiculous. They are comparing Disney organized/sponsored events with ad-hoc events that Disney has not participation in. If I were a Christian Preacher and I were to say to my flock, "On May 19th 2009 we are going to Disney World would y'all like to join us?" would that put any onus on Disney to accommodate me in any special way? NO.

As you can see we have changed the look and feel of the website. I hope everyone enjoys the changes. We are upgrading the website from Drupal v5.3 to v6.10 to make the site more maintainable and generally useful. If you have any issues accessing content on this site please contact us at webmaster@dhptech.com.

Thanks,

AL

The video that YouTube removed due to "Community Guidelines".

Victimlesscriminal, one of my subscribers, and subscriptions, recently posted this video on you tube calling for the reinstatement of Pat Condell's video "Welcome to Saudi Britain". This video was reposted by Bjovolf, and many others, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB9xkbb83gM. It was supposedly taken down due to a "community guidelines" violation. So I guess that, in Britain, it is not OK to ask people to stand up to the fanatics of a backward religion like Islam.

From Victimlesscriminal:

I have been arguing back and forth with several Christians and Creationists about the so called "Theory of Intelligent Design". For those of you not familiar with it. Intelligent Design is the theory that the complexity of life and the universe can only be explained by a designer. This designer is supposed to be an entity that can manipulate reality in such a way as to create living beings in all their complexity. I hope I have given a fair summary definition as I am not attempting to create a Strawman.