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This event is being presented by the Humanist Association of Greater Philadelphia

Would you check "nonreligious", "atheist" or "agnostic" on religious surveys? Are you passionate about science and skepticism? Are you interested in Unitarian Universalism or Quakerism for their ethical values, but turned off by the supernaturalism that come with them? If your answers are yes, you're a Humanist!

Martha Knox, Celebrant and VP of the Humanist Association of Greater Philadelphia gives an interactive talk about organized, philosophical Humanism, which is both a global movement and network of local communities. Currently, HAGP is based in the northern suburbs. The goal of this talk is to attract both new membership and hopefully leadership for new branches of HAGP in Philadelphia neighborhoods.

Directions to Germ Books
From Germbooks.com:

SEPTA from Center City:

☻Both the 5 and the 25 busses travel up Frankford Avenue with stops at Norris Street.

☻Take the Market-Frankford Subway Surface line to BERKS (best recommended for daytime travel). Walk north on Front Street to Norris and turn right. Germ is a couple blocks away. (google maps - Berks station to Germ Books)

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☻Take the Market-Frankford Subway Surface line to GIRARD. Walk east to Frankford Avenue and catch the 5 or the 25 bus.

Discuss issues surrounding the constitutional wall preventing the imposition of religion on US citizens, and the contemporary challenges that it faces.

RSVP here or join the Separation of Church and State Meetup Group.

This group meets on the 2nd Wednesday of every month.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about the Separation of Church and State ? but Were Afraid to Ask!

They are requesting that you register with your email address here: Simulcast Registration Page

Doors open 30 minutes before start of show. The show will begin precisely at the time listed.

Online: The program will also be available via streaming video online. Details to come. Afterwards they plan to produce a DVD of the event.

From the First Freedom First Website:

Activists Gather At Theaters In 25 Cities To Put Church-State Separation On National Agenda During 2008 Election

Actors, musicians and comedians will join church-state activists from across the country March 26 to put church-state separation on the national agenda during the 2008 election season.

In movie theatres in 25 cities across the nation, interested citizens will gather to learn about the threats to church-state separation and to demand that presidential hopefuls and candidates for other offices answer questions about key issues dealing with individual freedom. A list of 10 great questions to ask candidates will be featured.

Titled 'Everything You Always Wanted to Know about the Separation of Church and State ... but Were Afraid to Ask!", the high-definition program is being hosted by First Freedom First (FFF), a joint project of Americans United for Separation of Church and State and The Interfaith Alliance Foundation.

Public Transportation

The Theater is located several blocks below Washington Avenue near Reed Street.

Broad Street Subway - go to Ellsworth-Federal station, transfer to 64 Bus to travel east to Columbus Blvd. Exit at Reed St.

Also - 25 Bus travels south from Frankford to South Columbus Blvd.

John Allen Paulos' new book is Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up.

John Paulos is a professor of mathematics at Temple University. His other books include Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences and A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

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This event is presented by the Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia. Please see MargaretDowney.com for more info.

John Allen Paulos website

Amazon.com link for book

First Chapter, New York Times, Jan 13

Hoping and believing don't prove God exists - Philadelphia Inquirer, March 9

Description:

The Catholic Church had dominated Europe for a millennium, compiling an astonishing record of fraud, self-enrichment, and violence. Into the breach stepped the bold rebels of the Protestant Reformation, who proceeded to compile their own even more impressive record of fraud, self-enrichment, and violence, the like of which Europe had never seen, nor has it since.

Luis Granados is a Washington, DC attorney and a student of religious history. He is currently writing a comprehensive history of religious scandal entitled False Witness: The Story of Organized Religion. From the earliest human sacrifice through today's cartoon riots and "intelligent design," Granados will tell the story of Luther, Calvin, Cranmer, the Thirty Years War and more.

For more information about the speaker, see Luisgranados.com Blog

The introduction and sample chapter of book, False Witness: The Story of Organized Religion, is available at the site.

(Note: this event coincides with the Susan Jacoby lecture at the Free Library of Philadelphia.)

This event is presented by the Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia (FSGP)