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

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[ron_newman]

Could you please post the relevant information as text (date, time, location), and put the graphic behind an lj-cut? thanks

[magid.livejournal.com]

You might want to edit your image, too, since "Publilc" is not the usual spelling.

[turil.livejournal.com]

These folks would do well to read some marketing and communications theory, including George Lakoff's Don't Think of an Elephant book.

Something more like "Curiosity, it's what makes us want to be better." would communicate the same message, without the defensiveness and negativity and antagonism against "god". Define yourself by what you are, rather than what you are not so that people will feel inspired to follow you...

[turil.livejournal.com]

Also, people have many different meanings for "god". For some the term god means "love". So the title of the campaign and book to these folks sounds just like "Good Without Love" which is pretty dumb sounding, and probably not at all what was intended. I say, leave "god" out of things unless you are very clear what you mean by the term.

[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.

[tt02144.livejournal.com]

Why must it always be termed 'discrimination' when someone of a certain persuasion or belief can't get elected? Did it ever occur to you that people, by nature, tend to gather with others like themselves. Therefore, Christians (the overwhelming majority of Americans) might be more apt to vote for a Christian. Maybe only because they have a sense of the persons' beliefs, or moral compass, or whatever. It's not 'discrimination'. The term discrimination, in my opinion, has become so over-used and trivialized that it's barely relevant any longer anyway.

[jenskot.livejournal.com]

As a science lover and humanist (and therefore the target audience), I'm still kind as of bothered by the fact that this meeting is being held in the Science Center. I know that the two often correlate, but scientific progress has been hampered for centuries by people assuming that science = atheism, when in fact I know many religious people who are super-awesome scientists, and God and science are more mutually exclusive than antagonists. :/

(Not to bash, it looks interesting, I was just taken aback by the location - this seems like something that would be better held in a philosophy building.)