About Corridor Iowa Secularists Meetup Group

Hello and welcome to the Corridor Iowa Secularists Meetup!

This is a Meetup group designed to help develop a social community for Iowa Secularist members and fellow freethinkers. We hope to pull together atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, humanists, brights and any one else that shares a religion-free worldview. We strive to create a fun and friendly social environment for everyone. While we encourage the free exchange of ideas, we ask that everyone joining us on Meetup or at a Meetup event be respectful and considerate of one another. Please be aware of the Iowa Secularists goals and mission statement below and understand that we expect all our Meeup members to abide by them.

Please visit our website at www.iowasecularists.org for more information.

Thanks for checking us out and we hope to see you soon!

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Iowa Secularists Mission Statement

• To create a community of persons who believe that the truths of the world can be found through logic, reason and science, and who reject religion, mysticism and superstition as a means of explaining the world around us.
  
• To promote activism and exchange of ideas important to secularists.
  
• To make positive contributions to our communities through service and involvement in order to reflect and expand secularists' positive influence to the community.
  
• To educate the public on the value of secular ideals, separation of state & church and living without religion.
  
• To actively support the Separation of Church and State in our communities, state and nation.
  

Iowa Secularists Goals

As an organization, the Iowa Secularists strive (1) to support a community and network of atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, and other non-religious persons and also (2) to build the resources necessary to actively support the Separation of State and Church in the state of Iowa by encouraging members to stay in touch with legislators, providing action items for specific threats, and by reaching out to form alliances with other organizations, including faith-based organizations, which have similar goals.

In order to reach these goals, we aim (1) to be a positive, articulate, well-reasoned, and respected voice for secularists in Iowa, (2) to educate the public on the value of secular ideals, separation of state & church, and living without religion, (3) to improve the image of secularists by reaching out to, finding common ground with, and building alliances with organizations with views that differ from ours and by positive contributions to our communities through service and involvement. In addition, we call for our representatives (1) to avoid sarcastic, negative, or vitriolic language when articulating our views and (2) To avoid the perception that the Iowa Secularists is against religion or religious organizations.

Overall, we hope to advance the Enlightenment ideal that freedom of conscience is of paramount importance to a free people.