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Hosts of the Atheist Experience cable access show in Austin hung up on a Christian caller over the weekend after he suggested that God might not stop the rape of a little girl because the victim was also "evil."

A Christian viewer from Phoenix named Shane called in to Sunday's show with the hopes of convincing host Matt Dillahunty and co-host Tracie Harris that the fact that even atheists had a "moral code" proved of the existence of God.

"Divine command theory, the religious proposition that God dictates morality is in fact immoral," Dillahunty explained to the caller. "It forces you to sacrifice your humanity and pollutes your moral compass because you are stuck doing whatever this God supposedly says is good, whether or not it's actually good. And we already know that there are, for example, commands in the Bible that are not morally correct."

"I think you're more moral than your God and you just haven't figured it out yet," Harris added.

"Why is God so immoral?" the caller asked.

"I don't think that God exists but if we're talking about the God character in Bible as God is represented, you know, it's a pretty horrible, jealous, angry being that advocates slavery," Dillahunty pointed out. "I don't know why he's that way. Maybe he's just a dick."

"You either have a God who sends child rapists to rape children or you have a God who simply watches it and says, 'When you're done, I'm going to punish you,'" Harris agreed. "If I could stop a person from raping a child, I would. That's the difference between me and your God."

"First of all, you portray that little girl as someone who's innocent, she's just as evil as you," the caller shot back.

With that comment, Dillahunty disconnected the call.

"Goodbye, you piece of shit!" he exclaimed. "You know what? I was a better Christian than you when I was a Christian, and I still am."

The entire the Atheist Experience broadcast is available here.

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From this Friday's The Young Turks, Paul Ryan can pretend to run from his hero Ayn Rand, but he can't hide -- Paul Ryan may have broken up with Ayn Rand, but their extreme ideas sound awfully similar:

Cenk goes way back into the philosophy of Ayn Rand, “possible sociopath and ideological godmother of the Republican Party.” Though Paul Ryan has attempted to disavow his admiration for Rand, her extreme ideas seem to match up with the “values” that he and many on the right wing have tried to legislate through budget cuts. Her only mistake in their eyes? Atheism.

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From this Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher, Bill takes Mitt Romney to task for his carping over the made up non-controversy that President Obama supposedly wants to take the word God off of our money. And then you had the Republicans making a big deal about whether god was removed from their platform or not at this year's convention.

As Bill pointed out, worrying about whether the word is on our money or not is redundant, since our god is already the almighty dollar, and in Mittens' case, probably parked over in the Cayman Islands in one of those tax shelters he loves so much.

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The director of issues analysis at the anti-LGBT rights group American Family Association (AFA) is proposing that the government pass a law requiring that every American go to church or pay a tax penalty.

During his Thursday Focal Point radio program, Bryan Fischer backed a listener's proposal to have an "individual mandate from the government that everybody has to go to church."

"Because after all, Obamacare is all about improving the health of the American people," the radio host explained. "We know that going to church is good for you, it's good for your health. So we are going to mandate that you go to church for your own health and we are going to tax the atheists who don't go to church."

"Now we can't make you go to church, but we are going to penalize you if you don't," Fischer continued. "We are going to assess a tax on every atheist who doesn't go to church because those atheists are endangering their physical health."

"That is actually a brilliant, brilliant suggestion."

Earlier this week, Rep. Allen West (R-FL) used the Affordable Care Act's individual health care mandate as justification that every person be forced to buy a Glock 9mm handgun.

“Well, I got a great idea,” West said during a campaign rally in Florida on Sunday. “I believe for personal security, every American should have to go out and buy a Glock 9mm. And if you don’t do it, we’ll tax you. Now, I wonder how the liberals will feel about that one.”

(h/t: via Right Wing Watch)

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The daughter of televangelist Rev. Billy Graham says that it's important to discriminate against candidates who are atheists because politicians "should have a fear for almighty God."

In an interview with Ann Graham Lotz on Sunday, NBC host David Gregory noted that her father had advocated using every form of modern communication to spread Christianity.

"For the church, for my daddy, who is an evangelist, I don't think he was necessarily talking about the political arena when you're running for president," Graham Lotz explained. "It's interesting that Jimmy Carter and George Bush were both considered evangelicals, but very different. So to me, I still think we need to look at the policies."

"I would not vote for a man who is an atheist," she declared. "Because I believe you need to have an acknowledgement, a reverence, a fear for almighty God. And I believe that's where wisdom comes from."

A 2007 Newsweek poll found that 62 percent of Americans would not vote for a candidate who was an atheist, making atheists one of the groups most politically discriminated against in the U.S.

(H/T: Politico)

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Director Matthew Chapman hopes that his new movie will do for atheists what Brokeback Mountain did for the gay community.

In the new film The Ledge, Charlie Hunnam plays an atheist named Gavin who is about to kill himself because of a dispute with a Christian villain named Joe (played by Patrick Wilson).

Liv Tyler plays Shana, who is at the center of the conflict.

"This could be the Brokeback Mountain moment for atheists, our tipping point, when we finally get the attention we deserve," Chapman wrote on the film's website. "Although books have put atheists into the intellectual mainstream, The Ledge is the first Hollywood drama to target the broader movie-going public with an openly atheist hero in a production big enough to attract A-list stars. This is unprecedented."

"I've traveled a lot in the Midwest and the South and seen a lot of people like Joe, the fundamentalist in the film," he told CNN's Kyra Phillips Monday. "And I've never seen a portrayal of that kind of a character put in conflict with someone who shares my beliefs, which are that there probably isn't any God and we need to think about, you know, reality in life in a rational, humane way."

Catholic League president Bill Donohue has attacked Chapman, but stopped short of calling for a boycott.

A trailer for the film is available here.