The American Atheists National Convention is firmed up! Check out that neat counter at the top of the page! Check out the lineup below! Add to that a good-old-fashioned God Debate on Sunday.These conventions are always a blast — Please join us in San Antonio in 50 days!
The Convention will also feature its blockbuster line-up of speakers including:* JOHN LOFTUS, Former Department of Justice war crimes investigator, attorney and author of “Holy Trinity,” an expose of ties between Nazi bankers, the Vatican and western powers.* DAVE FITZGERALD, Bay Area First Amendment activist, author of “The 10,000 Christs and the Evaporating Jesus.”* MICHAEL SHERMER, philosopher and science historian, editor of Skeptic Magazine speaking on “The Science of Good and Evil.”* ED MARTIN, former Internal Revenue Service Special Agent, lead department investigator in the disappearance and murder of the Murray-O’Hair family.* ANDREA MOORE-EMMETT, author of “God’s Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist Polygamy”* ROBERT DREYFUSS, independent journalist, investigative reporter, author of “Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam.”* FRANK ZINDLER, linguist, Bible-era historian, Editor of American Atheists Press, author. Speaking on: “The theopolitics of Intelligent Design Creationism.* JAMILLA BEY, comedienne extraordinaire, an “out and proud” Atheist.In addition, there will be panels, meetings, leadership training forums and other events, plus a Sunday afternoon excursion to Sea World San Antonio. Get more information and register now for this extraordinary event! Sign-up on line using our secure transaction server at http://www.atheists.org/convention(AMERICAN ATHEISTS is a nationwide movement that defends civil rights for Atheists; works for the total separation of church and state; and addresses issues of First Amendment public policy.)
Wish I could go.
Cool! Shermer’s going to be there? I thought he was calling himself a ‘born-again agnostic’ these days. Perhaps he’s changed his mind again.
I love that guy.
I’ll probably be there. And the line-up just makes it sound more awesome. ^_^
Had I the money and travel-visa I’d be there.
Well, to be honest, I think if I had those things, I’d be going to North Carolina and/or California,
to meet two other regular posters here on the blog, instead.
I’m not sure thsi is the right thread for this, but I just read this in the papers: South Dakota is introducing a bill that will ban abortion.
see
http://womensissues.about.com/cs/abortionlaw/a/sdabortionban.htm
for details.
Texas? Damn. The things I have to do to congregate with my fellow atheists. If I fly out there, you are buying me a drink, Dave.
ReluctyLoon and Karen … ya both got xtra mail.
I’m too young and too poor to make my way to San Antonio, especially from WAY up here in Canada. I wish I could meet a lot of you guys though.
Why can’t we organize our own meetup/convention, just for the members of this blog?
I second Dagny2’s suggestion.
Dagny2.
Good idea.
Putting faces to names is always surprising and informative.
Alas, I’m probably not gonna show up for anything, as I’m a Danish guy
with little funds to throw around.
I won’t be gettin’ to the U.S. in the near future… but possibly in the somewhat not-to-distant future.
why in san antonio? cant you go a little more south to corpus where i live? roadtrip will be expensive but perhaps its worth it. maybe i can bum a ride off my friend. well see. maybe i will see some of you there. enjoy
Can’t swing it this year. Maybe next time.
I like the idea of us bloggers getting together too.
Hairless-If you come to the states, you BETTER stop in NC. Don’t make me hunt you down. And please elaborate on this “I won’t be gettin’ to the U.S. in the near future… but possibly in the somewhat not-to-distant future.”
Karen… yes, the North Carolina thing meant YOU, my queen bitch.
The California part was Reluctyloon.
“And please elaborate on this “I won’t be gettin’ to the U.S. in the near future… but possibly in the somewhat not-to-distant future.” “.
Well, first of all I gotta get a passport that’s up to date,
then I gotta get a… well, the list does go on.
But rest assured that Oakdale Drive
is FIRST on my schedule.
Oh, this is so freakin’ RICH!
I found perhaps the funniest xtian site on record!
http://biblioblography.blogspot.com/2006/02/diabolic-dysentery-spreading-good-news.html
I HAD to do a post on this.
Anyone up for a ‘Gospeltory’?
Aye and jaypers, I was laughin’ so hard, it was hard to write the bleedin’ thing!
If I were an xtian, I’d be SO EMBARASSED by this cat!
MF:
Ummm…been suggesting that for a few months now.
Hey, love your blog, BTW. ‘You’ve got post’.
HMDK:
I assume you’re gonna get a simple visa?
Hope you’ll visit me in CA. My current circumstance, I can’t put ya up (but I CAN put up w/you, hehehehe). Barely got dos deneiro to rub together.
I’m hopin’ I’ll be 2nd on your agenda? (Damn, always #2 – gotta try harder).
Well, ReluctyLubricant, you and California WILL be number two.
Karen and North Carolina WILL get preferential treatment.. heee.
“I assume you’re gonna get a simple visa?”
Yes. But that as easy as you think.
Criminy! There ought to be in an “isn’t” in my last message.
HMDK:
Doesn’t it depend on what the visa’s for?
Got no idea how things work in Dunwich (whoops! Denmark! sorrysorrysorrysorry!).
Hehehehe.
Reluctant… yeah, that’s right, keep baiting me to punch you in the face.
Yeah, the visa thing… can hardly remember the requirements from way back when… and post 9/11 I imagine the restrictions are that much more draconian.
P.S.
At least Dunwich ACKNOWLEDGED its monsters… whereas certain countries choose to CELEBRATE theirs!
HMDK:
Yeah, story of me life. Bob ‘n weave, bob ‘n weave, I say.
Hey, I can teach you some Arabic swear words to help you along (hehehehe).
The dread THWAP! of the rubber glove, & those 2 dreaded words: “Cavity search!”
Truer words have rarely been spoken.
Hairless
I was wondering how much time I had to turn a junkroom into a guestroom. You’re no help at all. How long will you be over here?
Thank God – Atheist Conference Time
I am sure they get a kick of of somethings Christians do. But I couldn’t help but notice No God Blog’s announcement of the AANC (American Atheists National Convention).
The American Atheists National Convention is firmed up! Check out th…
I’m definitely going to try to make it out to the convention. Considering it’s just a matter of driving across town, I have no excuse not to come. I’ll probably drag my agnostic friend with me. He doesn’t know he’s going yet, but he is.
OK Zac (and everyone else)If yo make it to the convention, I owe you (all) a drink. C U there!
Where would you all like to meet for a NGB con? NJ? CA? Hairless’ house?
David:
Since we’re all scattered across the states, can we find a mid-western state that’s not ultra-conservative (if such a creature exists, that is)?
I’m in CA. I’d probably have to hitch a ride w/someone, or take a greyhound (me car ain’t in such great shape any more).
Open to thoughts.
A screening process of sorts might be in order, though.
Screening process? You mean you dont want to see phreedm face to face?
Zac:
Oh, no, not what I meant at all.
I’m talking about those malcontents who show up sporadically, shriek epithets, tell us about how we’re not ‘true Americans’, etc, etc. You know what I mean.
I am by far more likely to clock 1 of them than phreddy. Or Tim, for that matter.
I’m a fairly peaceful fellow in the non-virtual world, but there are limits to everything.
& we get the occasional atheist in here who’s…how shall I say it? A little out in left field. & I don’t mean politically.
David,
Is there some way the convention can be fed to this blogsite, so we transportationally challenged can have a taste of it? Maybe an interactive thing? I’d love to go but is impossible. And Texas?!!, holy cow patties!
Some of us are underage, you know. Seriously, adults these days. ^_^
The Atheist Convention,wow! lol I didn’t know you have one…
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