Once upon a time we enjoyed regular writing from members of our community. That has dropped off, but we'd like to keep their work available for future readers. Enjoy.
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On October 26, a dozen bustling New York City subway stations will be adorned with the ads as "part of a coordinated multi-organizational advertising campaign designed to raise awareness about people who don't believe in a god", according to a statement from the group, the Big Apple Coalition of Reason.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/10/21/new.york.subway.ads/index.html
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It seems that Ray Comfort's idiotic publicity stunt has caused some problems on Amazon. Folks are putting high ratings on his version of On the Origin of Species, not realizing that they're specifically rating Comfort's befouled version (with 50 pages of stupid at the front).
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Tom has contributed a number of episodes of "The Humanist Perspective", a television show put out by the Council for Secular Humanism. They are available on loan to our members. A few went out at last month's meeting. These are in my possesion. Please email me if you'd like to borrow them.
• #288 The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Vol. 1, Seth Shostak
• #298, 301 Naturalism Through Narrative Vols. 1-4, Judy Walker
• #290-92 The Immorality of Religious Ethics Vols. 1-3, R. Joseph Hoffmann
• #156 African American Humanists, Norm Allen Jr.
• #295,6 Secular Study of Religion Vols. 1 & 2, Robert M. Price
• #297 Humanism and Community, Judy Walker
• #129 Human Issues of the Day, Paul Kurtz
• #199 The Black Humanist Experience, Norm Allen
• #158 The Search for Meaning, Tom Flynn
• #165 Searching for Meaning Without Religion, Tom Flynn
• #303 The God Theory is Dead Vol. 1, John Shook
• #164 Happiness from a Humanist Perspective, Norm Allen
• #168 Humanists, Come Out of the Closet!, D.J. Grothe
• #281 Quantum Mechanics and Free Will Vol. 2, Barry Loewer
• #275 God: The Failed Hypothesis Vol. 1, Victor Stenger
• #167 Campus Freethought Alliance, D. J. Grothe
• #116 Incarceration Nation, Norm Allen
• #155 Revelations, Paul Kurtz
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We'll be meeting at Caribou Coffee by Crossroads Mall on Saturday, October 31st at 10:30 a.m. Any member or atheist-friendly persons are welcome. We'll try to reserve the conference room.
See you there!
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I'm as big a public radio fan as they come, and have been a sustaining member of MPR for years, but I'm really getting tired of biased religous coverage, even from NPR. Barbara Bradley Hagerty, religion writer, recently wrote an article on the "rift" between atheist factions. This raised the ire of many atheists, as 1) we are not dogmatically alike, and 2) atheists are not something Haggerty is qualified to write about considering her obvious and documented evangelical motives.
The real story, to me, is the comment stream. At the moment, there are over 500 comments. A remarkable number are from eloquent, knowledgable atheists. The comment rating system would seem to favor the atheist position as well. I'm happy to see that so many of us are speaking out in a rational, generally respectful manner to counter the misinformation and intentional ignorance displayed by many of the religious in the thread.
I highly recommend reading the thread, as it covers many topics from the definition of atheism to the legitimacy of evolution. It's encouraging and inspiring.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113889251