Come and enjoy good food and great conversation with other Freethinkers! Bring a dish to share, bring your spouse and/or friend, and bring water, soft drinks, a bottle of beer or wine, or whatever you’d like to drink. Coffee and tea will be provided by the host(s). The socials begin at 6:00 PM and usually break up around 9:00 PM. Remember to mark your calendar; socials are on the second Saturday of the month. Please click on "Read more" for complete details ...

Religious Naturalism: Evidential Inspiration and Realistic Hope
with Rev. Michael Dowd
November 26, 7pm-8:45pmAll Souls Unitarian Universalist Church730 N. Tejon St.Colorado Springs, CO 80903
 
 
 
This program, geared for adults and teens, expands on a TEDx talk Rev. Dowd delivered in May 2012 and draws on material in his bestselling, bridge-building book, Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World, which was endorsed by 6 Nobel laureates and other science luminaries, including noted skeptics and atheists, and by religious leaders across the spectrum.  Praise from Nobel Prize-winning scientists and dozens of religious leaders: http://bit.ly/52eQDC

You Deserve to Die: The Shameful Things the "Good News Club" Tells Elementary Schoolchildren
by Eric Cernyar
Wednesday, November 28, 2012         7:00 to 9:00 PM
Penrose Public Library Adult Meeting Room
20 North Cascade Street
Colorado Springs, Colorado 
 
 
For many years, an evangelical program called the "Good News Club" has taken a surprising approach to proseltyzing - offering after school programs in public schools that teach children of pre-school age and up that they were born with "dark" and "sinful hearts," and that they "deserve to die" and "go to Hell."  The November 2012 speaker has direct personal experience with these clubs, attending them as a child and working to defend them in court as an adult.  Becoming a parent changed his point of view about the value of teaching very young children the "good news" about hell, sin, and eternal damnation in the public schools (see www.intrinsicdignity.com).