Welcome
Welcome to the blog for the Atheist and Agnostic Society! Our official school website can be found here. On this blog, we post news and event updates for the club as well as occasional commentary from our club members. We hope you’ll explore our site and learn more about us. Feel free to leave comments and get a conversation started. You may also start a discussion on our Facebook Fan Page discussion board. You could also subscribe to receive AAS weekly updates via email.
Please note that any “fan mail” that is sent to the group’s email address or to any club member as a result of group activities may be posted on this blog for posterity, although we will remove your name and email address.
AAS Weekly Update
Dear AAS,
First off, there will be no sledding at Dr. Avalos’ house this weekend due to him being sick. Instead, we will be having brunch at Seasons Dining Center (in MWL) this Sunday at 11am in the Harvest Room. We will be playing the board game Playing Gods since last week’s meeting was canceled. The FB event page for it can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/manage/updates.php?id=182216651326&sent=1&e=0#/event.php?eid=308620576347&ref=nf
Also, tomorrow at 2pm will be a talk by Yusha Evans, a former youth minister, who converted to Islam in the late 1990’s. So if you have any questions about Islam or just wish to engage in some dialogue then be sure to check this out.
Finally, we will be having our first discussion topic of the year this Monday at 7pm in the Gold Room. The topic this week will be Should Atheist Groups Take Political Stances?
I hope to see you all there!
MLK Day of Service
To honor Martin Luther King, Jr. on Jan 18, groups across the country spent their day off work volunteering in the MLK Day of Service. Zack and Tori organized a volunteer opportunity for AAS at ACCESS – a shelter for victims of domestic violence.
ACCESS receives many donations of clothes, toys, toiletries, and more at their Drop-off location: the First Baptist Church in Ames. The donation room was filled with winter coats and other winter items that needed to be sorted to make room for spring-appropriate items. Ten AAS members spent about 2 hours sorting the items and having too much fun trying to figure out what some of the items were.
If you’d like to donate to ACCESS, please consider non-perishable food, cleaning supplies, laundry detergent, toilet paper – which they need more than anything else at this time.
Thanks to Zach and Tori for organizing the event!
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Student proselytizing
The article Students move in faith appeared in the ISU Daily today, showing the Christian perspective of student proselytizing, taken to the extreme of 50+ students changing schools to start a new ministry. An article tomorrow will show the ethical and administrative perspectives.
What are your thoughts on the article, and on these questions?
The full text of the article is reposted here for posterity because the ISU Daily search engine does not work well and we want to be sure that anyone who wants to read the article can find it.
Preview for upcoming blog post series
In a upcoming blog post series i am planning to write i will be discussing some common questions we get at ask an atheist and common responses to those that i hear. Also i will provide what might be a better response if i have one
The firearm of Jesus Christ
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Section 2k of the US military’s General Order 1B prohibits “Proselytizing of any faith, religion, or practice.” Full text PDF via Wikipedia entry on General Order 1. It’s a simple order that exists for not so simple reasons.
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Written by Anastasia
January 19, 2010 at 11:02 pm
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