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Debating the theists

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 | Chris Worfolk | No Comments

I delivered my first proper talk of the academic year last night, the ever popular debating the theists. It went down very well from the people I spoke to in the pub afterwards though I did end the question with “none of this constructive criticism BS, just positive adjectives please” so who can really say.

We got around 25-30 people to the meeting and most stayed for the social afterwards which continued on until about 11:30, just in time for us to get to The D afterwards which worked out well. London is now sold out too so that is going to be an amazing weekend. As ever, things are looking up.

What’s God got to do with it?

Saturday, October 25th, 2008 | Leeds Atheist Society | No Comments

Adam Cooper has written an interesting comment feature in the latest issue of LS2 discussing the Large Hadron Collider and the reaction it has had from the religious community.

In the article Adam points out that "the decline of believers can be closely correlated to the raised scientific awareness of the modern day."

We also received a brief mention during his discussion of the rise of atheism in recent times.

One Life strikes again

Saturday, October 25th, 2008 | Chris Worfolk | No Comments

Once again Friday saw a well attended One Life course where we were discussing ethics. It was an interesting session, we spent most of the night with me arguing in favour of objective morality to get the debate going which was fun .

Photos of the event can be found on Facebook.

Donate to a Worthy Cause

Friday, October 24th, 2008 | Warwick Atheists | No Comments

The Atheist Bus Campaign needs your support! Donate as much as you can spare in an attempt to get these humanist adverts displayed as widely across the country as possible. Looking at the amount raised so far should give you an idea of how much good company you’re in by choosing to support the British Humanist Association in this, and the more donations they receive, the greater the chance of having the adverts on a bus service near you!

Atheist bus campaign

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 | Leeds Atheist Society | No Comments

For those of you that haven't seen it in the news yet, here is the link to the BBC article on the atheist bus ad campaign which is now being administered British Humanist Association's (The BHA).

BBC News.

BHA Poster Campaign

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 | Leeds Atheist Society | No Comments

For those of you that haven't seen it in the news yet, here is the link to the BBC article on the British Humanist Association's (The BHA) current poster campaign in London.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7681914.stm

Atheist bus campaign

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 | Chris Worfolk | No Comments

Genius. Absolute genius.

Jesus Camp

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 | Chris Worfolk | No Comments

Tuesday came and it was time for another exciting A-Soc meeting. We bashed our way through quite a number of issues at the committee meeting before heading down to set up for our screening of Jesus Camp, a film about the Evangelist summer camps for young children to prepare them to “lay down their lives for the Gospel” in the same way Muslims are.

It is a scary film. Some of the one liners in it are incredible.

Attendance was following our usual numbers of popularity, I’ve also got almost everyone’s name now which I’m quite pleased about. It was good being able to put names to faces. The real bonus though is the amount of people that have signed up for London - we’ve sold almost all the places now, there is like one or two left.

The social went on long into the night and I ended up getting home at like 1-1:30 or something with a very drunk Michelle and Liz in toe.

Events in Weeks 4 and 5

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 | Warwick Atheists | No Comments

In week 4, we’ll be showing Dawkins’ Channel 4 documentary about religion, entitled The Root of all Evil?. It’s a look at the negative impact of religion over the years. This will be held in L5 at 3pm on Wednesday, 22nd of October.

In week 5, Andrew Copson of the British Humanist Association will be here to deliver a talk on faith schools. His talk will be at 6pm on Thursday, 30th of October.

To see Andrew Copson in action, take a look at his appearance on the BBC.

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Monday, October 20th, 2008 | Chris Worfolk | No Comments

For those of you who weren’t able to attend the recent FSM church service put on by Leeds Atheist Society and Spaghetti Ministries, the video is now available for you to stream off YouTube.