When: Sunday, March 20, 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Where: The 2100 Building, 2100 24th Avenue South

Bob Seidensticker will be talking about prominent Christian arguments. Bob came to Seattle about 20 years ago to work for Microsoft, and is now a writer. He has recently finished the manuscript for a novel that will prod Christians to consider the intellectual underpinnings of their faith.

Apologetics is the logical defense of Christianity, and William Lane Craig is one of the most well-known and active Christian apologists. At the next Seattle Atheists meeting, we will have a virtual debate with William Lane Craig. We will look in detail at the five arguments he typically uses in his debate, examining each one to understand its strengths and weaknesses. When we’re done, you should have a better understanding of pro-Christian arguments and how you can respond.

Light refreshments will be provided. Please join us on Meetup to RSVP and check out other events going on this month.

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We also encourage you to bring canned food items for our year-round Seattle Atheists SeasonLESS Food Drive. We’ll donate the food we collect to Family Works and Volunteers of America food banks in the name of Seattle Atheists.

At our Darwin Day event last month, we collected over a hundred pounds of food. Let’s keep up the good work! Food banks everywhere are experiencing a sharp decrease in the amount of food available to hungry families. It’s time to make sure that giving continues, even AFTER the traditional holiday giving season.
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Due to budget cuts at libraries, we’ve had to make changes to the format and location of our bi-monthly membership meetings.

First, we will no longer meet at the Greenlake Library, which is now closed on Sundays. We’ll be holding out meetings in a variety of places, throughout the greater Seattle area. This allows our members who have limited transportation options to get the chance to attend occasionally.

Since we’ve grown so much in the past two years, membership meetings are typically packed. We’re looking for larger venues.

Finally, we’ll be serving snacks and light refreshments after the speakers, so that you will have an opportunity to network with other atheists and agnostics.

We hope you will like the changes, and ask that you bear with us as we try to communicate those changes with you. We will post the most current meeting information here on this website, so stay tuned.

Thanks for your continued support as we try to better serve you!

Operation Paperback collects gently used books and sends them to American troops deployed overseas. Since 1999, we have shipped over 950,000 books to locations around the globe.

Many of our troops are serving far from home and living in facilities that provide few of the comforts of home. At the end of the duty day, the opportunity to escape into a good book is welcomed. Every week we receive thanks from troops who are glad to be appreciated and remembered.

Our service members make sacrifices every day for our country. It takes so little to let them know that we appreciate what they are doing for us. When you donate to Operation Paperback, you will let our troops know that you support them, and you have not forgotten them.

To get a head start collecting books at home, here are some instructions:

Troops have requested the following genres: action, bestsellers, biographies and memoirs, fantasy, history, horror, mysteries, science-fiction, true crime. Do not send romances unless specifically requested by the individual! Our troops have received a disproportionate amount of this genre and they aren’t very happy about it. Be sure that the books you collect are in very good condition.