Mark Lilla, Professor of Humanities at Columbia University, will speak on on the separation of church and state as part of the Luce Lectures in Religion and Human Security. Lilla says that “the revival of a radical political theology in Islam offers an opportunity to reconsider the history of church-state relations in the West and to think harder about the political challenges that religion presents today.”
WHEN AND WHERE: Tues., Jan. 12, at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m. The talk will be held in Kane 210 on the University of Washington campus. This event is free and open to the public.
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Sean Faircloth, Executive Director of the Secular Coalition for America, presents “One Nation Under the Constitution”
When: Nov. 6 at 5:00 PM
Location: Red Lion Hotel Orcas Room (3rd Floor), 1415 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101, (206) 971-8000
The Secular Coalition for America lobbies for secular policies in Washington, D.C. Secular Coalition Executive Director Sean Faircloth discusses how the values of our nation’s founders directly connect to the values of the secular movement and how theocratically-based injustices in American law are not a historical artifact — but rather a stark current reality that we all have a moral obligation to address.
This event is FREE! This event is not sponsored by Seattle Atheists.
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The Northwest Freethought conference, Darwin@200, is filling up! Be sure to reserve your spot now!
Keynote speakers
Some of the very interesting workshops and speakers include:
- Debating Darwin deniers: Jim Corbett, of the Humanists of North Puget Sound and Humanists of Washington, will show how to counter non-scientific statements/arguments, based on debates he’s had with evolution deniers.
- Reform at Victory: Michele Ulriksen, author of “Reform at Victory: A Survivor’s Story,” will share her experiences of being shipped off to a fundamentalist Baptist reform school (boot camp) when she was 16.
- Darwin’s Black Box: PSU professor Mitch Cruzan will talk about teaching Biology to non-Science majors and what beliefs about evolution college students bring to school with them.
- Hope for Skeptics: Jim Corbett presents his second workshop, one he’s also giving at the AHA conference in Phoenix in June. This one is about creating hope in a life that agnostics believe stops at death.
- Ten Myths about Evolution: The co-authors of “Top 10 Myths About Evolution,” Cameron McPherson Smith and Charles Sullivan, will share the core ideas of their book and reactions to it from a wide spectrum of readers.
- The Neuro-physiology of Peak Experiences: Dr. Josh Fost, author of “If Not God, Then What? Neuroscience, Aesthetics, and the Origins of the Transcendent”, will share some of his research in the neurophysiology of religious (and other peak) experiences.
You can register and pay online, and there is a one-day option available, housing, carpools and scholarships. Don’t miss this!
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We applaud President Obama in trying to move our government and our people away from use of religion as a divisive political tool. A good deed is a good deed, whether the motivation is secular or faith-based. Religious organizations might reasonably make use of government funds to help them carry out good deeds in a secular manner, if they keep finances transparent and if they help people and communities without proselytizing and without discriminating against those who do not share their beliefs. We urge the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships to specifically include non-believers and humanist organizations on their Council and ensure that equal opportunity is provided to non-faith groups to work with this office. We feel that extending a welcome to secular humanists will help yield further positive change toward supporting practical compassionate work in our neighborhoods, communities, and country.
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