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Meetings are generally held on Monday evenings.
Upcoming Events
Check here or ask a current member about our introductory meeting for potential new members this fall.
Sample Events from Fall Semester 2003/2004
03/16/04 Monty
Python's Life of Brian accompanied by pizza and fermented
refreshment.
02/07/04 Meeting
in Loker to discuss involvement in secular activism, and making
and selling of irreverent t-shirts.
01/13/04
Celebration of our esteemed President's 22nd birthday with
liquid refreshment, a movie, and episodes of Family Guy Season
3.
11/02/03 Humanist
Chaplaincy presents Leo Damrosch, Professor of English,
"The Enlightenment and the Self"
10/28/03 Patrick
Smith (our beloved President) presents "J.L. Mackie's Logical
Argument from Evil" before the Disproff Atheism Society at
Boston University.
10/21/03 Chips,
Salsa, Satan, and Nudity in Winthrop H-52
10/07/03
Discussion in Loker. Topic: As atheists, agnostics,
humanists, secularists, how do we structure our ethical world?
As the class says, if there is no God, is all permitted?
10/05/03 Humanist
Chaplaincy presents Ellery Schempp "Revelation Trumped by the
Constitution"
09/30/03
Discussion in Loker: Topic: Terms - atheist, agnostic,
secularist, humanist. How should we define HSS?
09/23/03 Family
Guy with religious references in Winthrop H-52
09/16/03
First introductory meeting of the year. Presentation of
the classic disproof of God by the Argument from Evil
Highlights from Past Years
Topics of
Discussion
~ Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause as
interpreted by the Supreme Court
~ Plato's Euthyphro
~ Pledge of Allegiance and the Establishment Clause
~ Miracles
~ Cosmological Argument
~ Ontological Argument
~ Freedom and Divine Omniscience
~ Abortion
~ Euthanasia
~ Death
~ South Park
~ Evolution
~ Quantum Mechanics and God
~ Heredity
Events:
~
Presentation by
Christopher Hitchens, a writer for The Nation and perhaps
the wittiest contrarian on the planet, "Religious
Indoctrination"
~ Presentation by Michael Newdow, plaintiff in the Pledge
of Allegiance case
~ Alan Dershowitz with Dean Douglas Kmiec of Catholic
University Law School debate "Under God? The Pledge of
Allegience and the Establishment Clause in the Aftermath of
Newdow"
~ Joint trip to the Boston Museum of Science with MIT
Atheists, Agnostics, and Humanists (MITAAH)
~ Paintball with Christians
~ Dinner Discussions with Civil Libertarian Wendy Kaminer
and Jay Harris, Professor of Moral Reasoning 54: "If There Is No
God, All Is Permitted."
~ Panel Discussion on abortion at the IOP with Bill Baird
and Helen Alvare
~ Debate with Harvard Radcliff Christian Fellowship: "Does
God Exist?"
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