Boston Area Coalition of Reason Kick Off Event (Nov 2)

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

Good without God? Millions of Americans are.
boston.unitedcor.org/

Kickoff Event

When: Monday Nov.2, 7:30-9:30 PM
Where: Harvard Science Center Hall D. Free and Open to the Public

I thought this could be of interest. One of the member organizations is the Tufts Free Thought Society. www.facebook.com/group.php

Comments

[aynatt.livejournal.com]

Why do we need a large organization to tell us that it is OK to not believe in God...
There is something kind of creepy about this campaign that I find a bit unsettling.

[thebinturong.livejournal.com]

Mainstream religion, and much of American culture has marginalized and misrepresented atheism so far. But evangelizing atheism is equally as creepy as evangelizing religion. Which isn't to say it isn't a bit creepy.

Atheists tend to be united only in what they don't believe more than in what they believe. But I think that an organization that can state to the world that a moral compass can be provided by reason just as well as religious dogma has a place in society (if that is what this is about.) Its "what this country was founded on:" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment

... despite the best attempts of some right wing Christians to convince us otherwise. Reason may as well be defended, but like any morality, it is just what an individual believes.

[cosinezero.livejournal.com]

For a few reasons;

- The christians have an organized, political movement. They use this massive organization to affect your life in very real ways such as blue laws, abortion rights, "morality" taxes, etc.

- Athiesm and athiests by very nature lack organization - I don't believe in many things - why would I have meetings about that? Well, the fact is that if People for Purple Unicorns was pushing our country to engage in a holy war against countries run by Dragon Riders (and the women that love them)... wouldn't it be time to unify our voices against the ignorance and insanity that our tax dollars are being used to fund?

- All that said - Athiests and Agnostics are a major, growing group that it's generally perceived as OK to discriminate against. Athiests have a harder time being elected to public office due to the public slant towards fairy tale beliefs in public servants. In studies and research (I won't quote here what others have better) athiests fall below homosexuals in public trust, "hireability", and other areas of discrimination.

There's many, many more reasons. Read Richard Dawkins "The God Delusion", or Christopher Hitchen's "God is Not Great" for tremendously good examples of why athiests need to worry about the christian and religious fairy tale-ists influence in our culture, and why it's high time we get ourselves organized and start influencing back.

We're a silent majority that badly needs a voice.

[dylanesque29.livejournal.com]

Well said!

That is on target!

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

It's about time that such an organization emerges. We are all sick of the People for Purple Unicorns pushing our country's agenda.