Certain facts are being withheld from this article to protect those involved as the story is currently developing.  It will be updated as events permit.

Ontario, Canada - Secular Earth has been made aware of a situation currently playing out in a small city in Ontario, Canada.  A teacher (Mr X) who has been employed with the Catholic school board in that city for some years has been recently given an ultimatum to resign or be fired.  The elementary school teacher was first given the ultimatum in mid-October when he was called into a meeting with the Director of Education and two union representatives.  Mr X made the mistake of allowing the board and therefore the church to become aware of his recent marriage, an act which as a gay man is completely legal in Ontario.

Upon receiving word that a male teacher had married another male and that he was still influencing children in his evil ways the board quickly acted in calling a meeting and issuing the ultimatum. Mr X must resign and accept a position which they would arrange for him with the public board by the end of October or they would terminate his employment (because we all know that non-Catholic school children are incapable of being swayed towards homosexuality as is the obvious agenda). 

republished from Conversations with an ex-Jehovah’s Witness

When it comes to religion, children are the unwitting victims of a geographical lottery. Where you were born closely links to what religion your parents follow. This in turn is the best predictor of what you wind up with, often for life. The name given to this phenomenon is hereditary religion, which is defined as the propagation of a religion down through the generations based on the indoctrination of credulous young children before they can resist. If religion was all they got, perhaps this would not be objectionable. Unfortunately, they also get class enmities, religious doctrinal disagreements, nationalistic disputes, tribal jealousies, and other fractious hatreds that make hereditary religion a curse on humanity.

by Splendid Elles

Ah, air travel. It’s the fastest mode of transportation we have, and manages to make itself seem like the slowest. Having spent hours lying or sitting in uncomfortable airplane seats or on airport Rows of Seats We Can’t Squish Together to Make a Comfy Bed, I feel I have enough Pure Evil stored up to do a post relating to atheism. I give you: Why God Almost Certainly Does Not Exist: Part II.

The point that seems to be consistently missed is that god does not actually exist. I suppose it’s understandable why it’s been missed - Dawkins does leave his section on why a creator god must be as complex if not more so than its creations a bit lacking. I’ll fix that.