The Internet: Where religions come to die

Here’s another great Thunderf00t video that manages to sum up much of how the propagation of religion occurs:

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March meeting this Wednesday

[ March 10, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Our next meeting is upon us already.  They always seem to sneak up so fast.  This meeting will be in the room behind the humongous globe next to the kids’ section, towards the front of the library at 7PM.  We have another full agenda, but not quite as much business this time around.  The Executive Board [...]

Allow me to demon-strate

I just finished watching Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons last night.  I guess this is a spoiler, but the bad guys win in the end.  I kid, I kid.  The Catholic church survives a huge, elaborate conspiracy devised by one of their own in an attempt to bring their religion onto an even footing with [...]

Coffee Klatch Saturday @ 10AM

[ February 13, 2010; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] We have our next installment of the coffee klatch tomorrow at the Firefly on North Anthony from 10AM to 1PM or whenever everybody runs out of things to talk about or money for coffee; whichever comes first.

As usual, there’s no real agenda-  just an excuse to chat and relax.

The coffee klatch has been so popular [...]

*UPDATE* February 10th meeting is still on

Our February meeting is this Wednesday, February 10th, at 7PM in meeting room C of the Main branch library. We have a lot on the agenda to talk about this month including going over our first proposed FFW amendment, a possible Q&A session and documentary with the Immanuel Lutheran church and others in March, [...]

Do the Saints have a prayer?

I am going to recklessly assume that the vast majority of our local readers who have an interest in sports are pulling for the Indianapolis Colts to win the Super Bowl tonight.
If you’ve been paying attention at all this year, you will know that this year’s MVP Peyton Manning (his 4th MVP) and the vaunted [...]

The proposed FFW 1st Amendment

The governing committee meeting went well last night.  We got a lot done in 3 hours.  I think we are slowly but surely getting better at the business aspect.  It’s all pretty much new to me, but I’m surprised to find much of the business aspects to be interesting.  And entertaining.  We had a good [...]

“Governing Committee” meeting Sunday @ 6pm

There will be an important meeting Sunday, January 31st at 6pm at Andy Welfle’s house concerning drafting the new amendment to our FFW Constitution about a governing committee.  This meeting will be used to hopefully finalize the amendment for proposal and vote at our regular February meeting next month.
If you do not know where Andy [...]

FFW Goals for 2010

Hi everyone.  In some weird twist of fate, I have become FreeThought Fort Wayne’s second President.  I have already been helped by getting Joel as our new VP and Sandy as our new Secretary.  I expect they will both fill in admirably for the upcoming year.  Our first President, Andy Diekroger has assumed the Treasurer [...]

You big meanie!

Here’s a quick article from foreignpolicy.com that has Sam Harris going all Modest Proposal-like on Karen Armstrong.
I like Ms. Armstrong.  She is extremely knowledgeable about religion and seems to represent, to me at least, what I think most people believe “True Religion” (copyright pending) stands for.
She apparently believes all of the extremists and fundamentalists of [...]