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Book Review: An Atheist Guerrilla Debating Manual
By Lewis Campbell Playing Chess with Pigeons: A Compendium of Fundamentalist Apologetics and their Refutations by Chuck Hall. BMDO Publications. Chuck Hall says he has been debating fundamentalist...
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James Zimmerman to speak at October MN Atheists Meeting in Apple Valley
The October meeting of Minnesota Atheists will feature James Zimmerman discussing his new book Deliverance at Hand! Much of Zimmerman's book takes place in Apple Valley which is partly why we selected...
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News and Notes - October 2013
By George Kane Wisconsin’s state constitution provides excellent protection for the separation of church and state, defining it more clearly than the First Amendment to the United States Constitution....
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September Meeting Featuring PZ Myers Draws Large Crowd
By Alyssa Ehni The room was packed for September’s Minnesota Atheists meeting at the Roseville Public Library. The meeting featured PZ Myers, an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of...
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Commentary - Action, Not Semantics, Defines Atheism
By Steve Petersen At the September Minnesota Atheists meeting with PZ Myers, a classic issue came up in the question-and-answer session: Atheism only defines what we do not believe rather that what we...
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Board Report - October 2013
By Jill Carlson At the September board meeting, the Board voted to sign a lease on rental space at the Wesley Center in Downtown Minneapolis for $200 per month for one year. This arrangement failed...
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MN Atheists Seeks to Change Law to Allow Atheists to Perform Marriages
By August Berkshire Minnesota Atheists has restarted our process to change Minnesota state law to allow atheist leaders to conduct civil marriages. We began this project a few years ago but then the...
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Sexual Harassment Policies Should be Gender Neutral
By Bernadette Chlebeck and Phil Cunliffe When you hear the words “Sexual Harassment Policy,” what image comes to your mind? Most likely you envision a female victim and a male perpetrator. If you do,...
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President's Column: Know your Local Nonprophet Nonprofits
By Eric Jayne Our recent, first-ever, “Dinner with the Board” event was delightfully fun. The board members had a chance to talk with several supporters while enjoying delicious drinks and food. A...
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Deliverance at Hand! Author Delivers Impressive Talk at Meeting
By Mike Haubrich For our October meeting at the Apple Valley Community Center, James Zimmerman gave us an informative and witty presentation. Zimmerman started speaking in front of audiences when he...
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A Scottish View of the MN Atheists Conference
By Charles Coventry As part of my third holiday to Stillwater, Minnesota, to visit my friend Ken Moses, we attended the Minnesota Atheists conference this past August. At the conference, my Humanist...
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News and Notes: SCOTUS could Eviscerate Establishment Clause
By George Kane I’m scared. I’m really scared. I’m afraid that when the Supreme Court decides Town of Greece v. Galloway this term, it will overturn the endorsement standard of Establishment Clause...
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Opening Statement from "Can we be Good without God" Debate
By August Berkshire On October 20, 2013, I debated Rev. Scott McMurray on the topic of “Can We Be Good without God?” at the University of Wisconsin in La Crosse. The debate was sponsored by the La...
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Marriage Celebrants Law to be Topic at January Meeting
At our January meeting, Minnesota Atheists will be revisiting the issue of Minnesota’s law on marriage celebrants, which August Berkshire discussed briefly at our September meeting and at length in the...
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Small Group Discussion Format Generates Ideas in November
By Charity Campbell The Minnesota Atheists November meeting featured small-group discussions on topics such as dealing with religious relatives, death and dying, and morality.
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James Bond Meets Darth Vader
By Lewis Campbell Book Review: The Messiah Game: A Comedy of Terrors, Part I by Tom Flynn. See Sharp Press. In a far distant future, humans have colonized 42,000 planets in the Milky Way galaxy through...
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President's Column: 2014 Will Be An Unbelievable Year With Your Help
By Eric Jayne It’s been another great year for the Minnesota Atheists! Since January 2013 we’ve added over 400 members on our Meetup site and held over 200 events in the Twin Cities area. Our paid...
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Are We Still Evolving? MN Atheists presents Sehoya Cotner at February Meeting
Sehoya Cotner is a professor of biology at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include evolution education for the non-scientist and using sex to teach evolution. In an interview with...
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Sunday Assembly Forming in Twin Cities
By Rebecca Chesin You may have heard some of the buzz about Sunday Assembly as an “atheist congregation” that’s popping up in cities around the world. While it’s true that Sunday Assembly gatherings...
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President's Column - Assembling Helpful Freethinking Support
By Eric Jayne When I joined the Minnesota Atheists board three years ago, I wanted to increase our community outreach and volunteer efforts because I know how much cash-strapped nonprofits rely on...
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