Famed SC atheist Herb Silverman leaving On Faith blog

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Columnist says he doesn’t live on Faith Street

Posted by Paul Bowers on Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:51 AM

South Carolina's most famous atheist has announced that he will no longer write for On Faith, a religion blog started by the Washington Post.

Herb Silverman, a retired College of Charleston math professor and founder of the Secular Coalition for America, wrote more than 175 pieces for the blog, but on Wednesday he announced that he'll be publishing his work elsewhere. He says the move was prompted by a change in the focus of On Faith, which is no longer affiliated with the Washington Post and is being rolled into a new website called faithstreet.com that helps connect people to churches in their area. Explaining his decision to leave the website, Silverman says that Faith Street is "not a street on which I live."

"My guess is that the new Faith Street will have humanist voices that are still respectful of religion and probably won't want to have harsh atheist voices — and sometimes I'm both," Silverman says. He says editors of the site rejected a piece of his recently. His latest column, "A Dangerously Incurious Pope," appears instead as a guest post on Hemant Mehta's popular Friendly Atheist blog. He says several atheist and humanist groups have offered to give him a platform since he left On Faith.

"It's been gratifying," Silverman says. "I feel like I'm more popular after being rejected than before. It's almost like one door closes and three doors open."

http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/TheBattery/archives/2014/01/09/famed-sc-atheist-herb-silverman-leaving-washington-posts-on-faith-blog

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1. That's too bad, but I certainly understand.

I'm sorry to hear that the "On Faith" site has been sold and changed it's emphasis. It's been a good source of interesting articles written from a variety of perspectives.