Tweet Of The Day - Hemant Mehta

I Did A Podcast For The Friendly Atheist

If you can bear hearing me say "you know" a hundred times, a couple of weeks ago popular Patheos blogger Hemant Mehta invited me onto his Friendly Atheist podcast during which he and his co-host grilled me about my blogging habits, the creation of JMG, and the state (and future) of the LGBT movement. Here's his somewhat effusive set up:

Our latest podcast guest is Joe Jervis, the prolific blogger at Joe. My. God. Jervis runs quite possibly the most popular personal blog about LGBT issues in the world. He’s been writing on the site for more than 10 years — a lifetime in the Internet world. His site has received multiple awards from groups like GLAAD, CBS News and The Village Voice. We spoke with Joe about how he manages to cover seemingly *everything* in the LGBT world, his unique vacation habits, and the biggest problems in his community. We’d love to hear your thoughts on the podcast. If you have any suggestions for people we should chat with, please leave them in the comments, too.

In addition to the audio file hosted at the link above, the podcast is available for free download at iTunes. Hopefully I don't sound like a tool.

UPDATE: The podcast is also on YouTube.

KENTUCKY: High School Students To Get Atheist Book, Ken Ham Is Outraged

Friendly Atheist blogger Hemant Mehta is part of a group that will hand out his book, The Young Atheist's Survival Guide, at a Kentucky high school. Creation Museum head Ken Ham is ever so pissed.

"The reason for handing out this atheist book is to attack the Bible and the Christian faith-and the atheists really just want Bible distribution by volunteers to be stopped all together. And of course, atheists do not ultimately have any positive message to give. What can someone who says there is no God, and declares that when you die you cease to exist, really offer people except some subjective opinions for living in the here and now?" Ham wrote in a post for Answers in Genesis on Sunday. The planned event for June 3 at Boone County High School, which is near the Creation Museum, is being organized by Tri-State Freethinkers, which is partnering with author Hemant Mehta and The Secular Student Alliance. The Freethinkers had asked for the same access to students that those passing out Gideon Bibles get.

Check out Mehta's book here.