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American Atheists National Conference, register now on-line! |
Get Ready For The
Freethought Event of 2008!
The 34th National Conference of
AMERICAN ATHEISTS
March 21-23, 2008 * Minneapolis, MN.
Register now on-line for this exciting event!
http://www.atheists.org/conference
Join us for a weekend of workshops, panels, talks by noted speakers and
other activities. Minneapolis is also one of the premier tourism
destinations in this part of the nation, so you'll want to consider
making your Conference visit an extended weekend.
The venue is the new, luxurious Minneapolis Marriott City Center Hotel
in the heart of downtown. It offers everything from stunning views to
magnificent accommodation, and you’re within walking distance of many
regional attractions. There are also convenient mass-transit and other
connections to spectacular destinations including THE MALL OF AMERICA,
the world-class Minneapolis Institute of Art and so much more! The
special convention room rate for the American Atheist conference is
only $99 per night (single, double, triple or quad).
Reserve your room now. Be sure to specify that you are with the
American Atheist conference to qualify for the special room rate… and
don’t forget to ask about “shoulder dates” if you want to extend your
stay before or after the conference weekend! You can visit the YAHOO!
Travel web site for the Marriott City Center to learn more about the
hotel and the local tourism sites and amenities. Click here for the
hotel web site. Remember, you must make your reservations directly with
the hotel at:
Minneapolis Marriott® City Center
30 South 7th Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402 USA
Phone: 1-612-349-4000
Fax: 1-612-332-7165
Getting There…
Major airlines service the Minneapolis-St. Paul International airport.
Once there, you can take a cab or private shuttle, or for only $2.50
hop the light rail which takes you downtown to the Marriott! Visit MSP
Interntional Airport for information on flying to the conference
Speakers...
Richard Dawkins is the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public
Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. Born in British
colonial Africa, he was educated in England, where he now lives. He did
his doctorate at Oxford under the Nobel Prize winning zoologist Niko
Tinbergen, then was briefly an Assistant Professor at the University of
California, Berkeley, from 1967 to 1969, after which he returned to
Oxford, first as a Lecturer in Zoology, then Reader, before being
elected to his present professorship.
He is the author of nine books: The Selfish Gene (1976, 2nd Ed 1989),
The Extended Phenotype (1982), The Blind Watchmaker (1986), River Out
of Eden (1995), Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Unweaving the Rainbow
(1998), A Devil’s Chaplain (2003), The Ancestor’s Tale (2004) and The
God Delusion (2006). The God Delusion has sold more than a million
copies in English, and is being published in 30 other languages.
Dawkins is now editing an anthology of scientific writing for Oxford
University Press, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing. In 2006,
to promote the values of education, science, and critical thinking
skills, he established The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and
Science (RDFRS) which is now a registered charity in both the UK and
USA.
Richard Dawkins has Honorary Doctorates of Literature as well as
Science, and is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal
Society of Literature. He has been awarded the Silver Medal of the
Zoological Society of London, the Michael Faraday Award of the Royal
Society, the Nakayama Prize, the Cosmos International Prize, the
Kistler Prize, the Shakespeare Prize and the Lewis Thomas Prize.
Ellen Johnson has been the president of American Atheists since 1995.
She became the Editor of American Atheist Magazine in 2006. She has
twice testified before the United State Commission on Civil Rights. In
2002 she organized the Godless Americans March On Washington and she
was the organizer of the November 11, 2005 “Atheists In Foxholes” March
On Washington. In 2003 she established the Godless Americans Political
Action Committee and she serves as its Executive Director.
Ms. Johnson has co-hosted the cable television program, “THE ATHEIST
VIEWPOINT” since 1994. In 1998, she met with the Office of Public
Liaison for the Clinton White House to discuss the subject of giving
Atheists a “place at the table” in the discussion of issues of concern
to our nation’s Atheists.
She is also a frequent guest on national radio and TV shows including
the Fox Network’s “Hannity & Colmes,” “Heartland” with John Kasich,
“The O’Reilly Factor,” “Scarborough Country,” “Tucker Carlson,” “Larry
King Live,” “CNN’s Paula Zahn Now, ” The CBS Early Show, Glen Beck on
Headline News, CBS Sunday Morning, a Barbara Walters Special and
C-SPAN’s prestigious public affairs program “Washington Journal.”
Ms. Johnson is an Honorary Associate of the Rationalist International,
and an Honorary Board Member of “Scouting For All,” a nationwide group
that seeks to end discrimination against Atheists and gays within the
Boy Scouts of America.
Ms. Johnson has a Master’s Degree in Political Science from The New
School For Social Research in New York City.
Dr. Jack David Eller - “Religion is Not What You Believe: How
Religion Works without Belief or Meaning to Colonize Experience”
Dr. Eller holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology and teaches anthropology in
Denver, Colorado. He conducted field research on Australian Aboriginal
religion and has published numerous articles and books for scholars and
the public. His most recent anthropological works are Violence and
Culture: A Cross-Cultural and Interdisciplinary Approach and
Introducing Anthropology of Religion. He is also the author of Natural
Atheism and the recently-released Atheism Advanced: Further Thoughts of
a Freethinker. His latest project is a study of religious violence
across cultures and religions. He is the former Colorado state director
for American Atheists and current coordinator of the Atheists and
Freethinkers of Denver.
Robert Lanham - The Sinner’s Guide To The Evangelical Right
Robert Lanham is the author of the books The Sinner’s Guide to the
Evangelical Right, The Hipster Handbook, and Food Court Druids. Neal
Pollack calls him “the Margaret Mead of the North American Weirdo.”
Lanham was born in Richmond, Virginia in the heart of the Bible Belt
and was raised in a strict Southern Baptist church. He grew up in an
environment where rock music was considered the devil’s music and with
parents who speak in tongues, vote Republican, and have a vanity plate
that says “Prayzin.” Lanham’s first babysitter was Republican Senator
Tom Coburn, best known for advocating the death penalty for abortion
providers. As a teen, before his fall from grace, Lanham tried to speak
in tongues, but failed. Lanham now lives in the den of iniquity, New
York City. Lanham’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The
Independent, Time Out, Nylon, Playboy, Maxim, and many other
publications as well as in the collections The Subway Chronicles and
Bookmark Now.
Debate between Frank Zindler and Dennis Prager
Frank R. Zindler is the managing editor of American Atheists Press and
the author of The Jesus the Jews Never Knew, a book that argues that
the ancient Jews never heard of Jesus of Nazareth. In fact, they had
never heard of Nazareth either. Formerly a professor of biology and
geology, for many years now he has worked as a linguist and science
writer.
Dennis Prager is one of America’s most respected radio talk show hosts.
He has been broadcasting on radio in Los Angeles since 1982. His
popular show became nationally syndicated in 1999 and airs live, Monday
through Friday, 9:00 AM to Noon (Pacific Time) from his home station,
KRLA. Widely sought after by television shows for his opinions, he’s
appeared on Larry King Live, Hardball, Hannity & Colmes, CBS Evening
News, The Today Show and many others.
Rene Salm - THE MYTH OF NAZARETH: THE INVENTED TOWN OF JESUS
Rene Salm was raised Roman Catholic. Researcher Rene Salm soon
abandoned the tenets of that faith and as a young adult began to search
for purely secular answers to life’s basic questions. Thirty years
later, he has come to believe not in a personal “God,” but in the power
of understanding, reason, and truth. After receiving Bachelor’s degrees
in Music and German, Salm embarked on post-graduate training in
religious studies and Hebrew, and has worked as the fields of mental
health and music instruction. He is self-taught in Pali (a dialect of
Sanskrit), Aramaic, and other ancient languages. Salm’s research
efforts have been directed especially towards the misunderstood origins
of Buddhism and Christianity, religions he now considers two very
corrupt forms of a vibrant and universal ‘gnosticism’ (i.e., quest for
truth). Salm sees religion as very imperfect in practice, though
aspiring to perfection.
Greydon Square - Performer
Greydon Square is an artist who promotes rationality and freethinking
reality through hip-hop. He is originally from Compton California, but
now lives in Phoenix Arizona where he is a physics major in college.
Mary Stanton - Return To Sender (Atheist Bill Moore’s 1963 Freedom Walk)
Mary Stanton is a historian whose primary research interest is white
civil rights activism. She has written four books on the subject:
Journey Toward Justice: Juliette Hampton Morgan and The Montgomery Bus
Boycott, The Hand Of Esau: Montgomery’s Jewish Community and the Bus
Boycott, From Selma To Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo,
Freedom Walk (The University Press of Mississippi, 2004) follows white
postman Bill Moore on a determined walk from Chattanooga, Tennessee to
Jackson, Mississippi to deliver a plea for racial tolerance to
segregationist Governor Ross Barnett. On the third day of his journey
Moore was ambushed and murdered near Gadsden, Alabama.
Stanton has taught at the University of Idaho, the College of St.
Elizabeth, and Rutgers University. Her articles have appeared in
Government Executive, Southern Exposure, Gulf South Historical Review,
Alabama Heritage, and Southern Jewish History. She lives in New York
City and works as an administrator for the Town of Mamaroneck in
Westchester County, New York.
Eddie Tabash - The Threat of the Religious Right to Our Modern
Liberties
Eddie Tabash is a life member of American Atheists. He is a
constitutional lawyer in the Los Angeles area. He is on the board of
directors of the Center for Inquiry–Council for Secular Humanism. He
has represented the Atheistic point of view in numerous debates against
some of the world’s foremost theistic philosophers, including William
Lane Craig and Richard Swinburne. He has been coached for his debates
by some of the world’s most prominent non believer philosophers,
including, Hector Avalos, Theodore Drange, R. Joseph Hoffmann,Paul
Kurtz, Michael Martin, Keith Parsons, Quentin Smith, and the founder of
Internet Infidels: Jeff Lowder.
Lois Utley - Medicine and Morality: How Religious Restrictions Can
Affect Your Health Care
Lois Uttley, MPP, is Director of the MergerWatch Project, a national
initiative working to protect patients’ rights and access to care from
the threat of religiously-based health care restrictions. The project
is an affiliate of Community Catalyst, a national health care advocacy
organization.
Check back for updates on Conference events! We promise you a
blockbuster line-up of speakers, fun social events and so much more –
what you’ve come to expect from this annual bash. Make reservations
now! We’ll see you in Minneapolis!
Greydon Square - Artist, performer who promotes rationality and
freethinking reality through hip-hop. A native of Compton, California,
he now lives in Phoenix, Az where he is pursuing his degree in physics.
Register now on-line using our secure server! Visit
http://www.atheists.org/conference .
(AMERICAN ATHEISTS is a nationwide movement that defends civil rights
for Atheists, Freethinkers and other nonbelievers; works for the total
separation of church and state; and addresses issues of First Amendment
public policy.)
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Larry Mundinger (aa#451) American Atheists Internet Representative
<irep @ atheists.org> <http://www.atheists.org/>
<http://www.americanatheist.org/> <http://www.atheistviewpoint.tv/>
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15 Jan 2008 04:49:38 PM |
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On Jan 14, 8:43=A0pm, "Larry Mundinger" <see.signat...@below.invalid>
wrote:
Get Ready For The
Freethought =A0Event of 2008!
The 34th National Conference of
AMERICAN ATHEISTS
March 21-23, 2008 =A0* =A0Minneapolis, MN.
If fred Phelps isn't coming, who's the enterttainment?
JohnN
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| User: "Ben Kaufman" |
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15 Jan 2008 10:00:51 AM |
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On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:43:55 GMT, "Larry Mundinger"
<see.signature@below.invalid> wrote:
Get Ready For The
Freethought Event of 2008!
The 34th National Conference of
AMERICAN ATHEISTS
March 21-23, 2008 * Minneapolis, MN.
Register now on-line for this exciting event!
http://www.atheists.org/conference
<SNIP>
Who decides on these places? I want to go to some place warmer in the winter.
They should have booked a hotel in Florida right by that "Christians only" town!
Ben
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| User: "Uncle Vic" |
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15 Jan 2008 12:42:03 PM |
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Ben Kaufman wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:43:55 GMT, "Larry Mundinger"
<see.signature@below.invalid> wrote:
Get Ready For The
Freethought Event of 2008!
The 34th National Conference of
AMERICAN ATHEISTS
March 21-23, 2008 * Minneapolis, MN.
Register now on-line for this exciting event!
http://www.atheists.org/conference
<SNIP>
Who decides on these places? I want to go to some place warmer in the winter.
They should have booked a hotel in Florida right by that "Christians only" town!
Or Hedonism II in Jamaica.
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Uncle Vic
2011
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| User: "SkyEyes" |
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15 Jan 2008 02:21:30 PM |
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On Jan 15, 9:00=A0am, Ben Kaufman <spaXm-mXe-anXd-paXy-5000-
doll...@pobox.com> wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:43:55 GMT, "Larry Mundinger"
<see.signat...@below.invalid> wrote:
Get Ready For The
Freethought =A0Event of 2008!
The 34th National Conference of
AMERICAN ATHEISTS
March 21-23, 2008 =A0* =A0Minneapolis, MN.
Register now on-line for this exciting event!
http://www.atheists.org/conference
<SNIP>
Who decides on these places? =A0I want to go to some place warmer in the w=
inter.
They should have booked a hotel in Florida right by that "Christians only"=
town!
Oh, forget Florida. The United States has a whole half of itself (or
slightly more) west of the Mississippi! Why not hold an American
Atheists National Conference in sunny Tucson, Arizona?
Brenda "In Sunny Tucson, Arizona" Nelson, A.A.#34
EAC Professor of Feline Thermometrics and Cat-Herding
skyeyes nine at cox dot net
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