The Existential Security Thesis of Religion

Sunday, March 13, 1:30 pm
Penrose Library, 20 N. Cascade Ave, Aspen Room

Free, open to the public.

 Explore how economic growth leads to a reduction of religious practice and believe.   Be prepared for a serious academic presentation, based on work by Harvard and University of Michigan social scientists.

Religion & Presidential Politics: Past Present and Future

Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 6:00 PM

It's not your imagination, politics in America has gotten MUCH more godly in the last couple of decades. So much so that scholars are writing serious books about the subject and traveling around the US talking about it. Our own UCCS Center for Religious Diversity and Public Life has arranged for just such a scholar to speak here on March 8 at from 6:00-7:15.

For several years, Freethinkers of Colorado Springs has been cooperating with
several local nonbeliever groups to hold regular "Secular Sunday Brunches"
here in the Springs.
We have just revamped the schedule and are now planning to hold four
sessions each month.
These events are non-structured, open discussion sessions, but we might start
planning programs for one or more of them in the future. The Sunday morning
time schedule was originally picked to allow folks just escaping from
religioun to attend during a normal meeting time for them. It also works well

Please join Pikes Peak Atheists for our fall volunteer day at Black Forest Animal Sanctuary.

The Black Forest Animal Sanctuary (BFAS) is an all animal rescue and rehab group dedicated to helping those animals that are abused, neglected, or no longer wanted by their current owners. Black Forest Animal Sanctuary is completely made up of volunteers. Black Forest Animal Sanctuary deploys their animal rescue team during disasters and at law enforcement request. Black Forest Animal Sanctuary has a network of foster homes and farms.

The Black Forest Animal Sanctuary website is:

www.bfasfarm.org

Everyone age 6 and over is welcome to volunteer!

The Freethinkers of Colorado Springs are hosting the area’s secular groups for a shared picnic and get-together. It will take place on Saturday, August 8th, from 11:00 am until 7:00 pm at Pavilion “C” in Memorial Park. We hope you’ll join us!

Bring something you would like to drink, a dish to share, etc., and a smile! NOTE: THERE ARE NO GRILLS PRESENT IN MEMORIAL PARK, if you want to grill onsite you will need to bring a portable grill.

The various secular groups have been evolving and it’s time to get to know one another. Prospect Lake is nearby and there’s playground equipment for the little folks, but if you have lawn games or anything else fun, please bring them along, too.

Please click "Read more" for all the details . . .

Earn up to $225.00!

Potential topic arenas: agnosticism, atheism, Bill of Rights, civil rights, economics, equality, freethought, government prayer, history, human rights, law, logic, mathematics, medicine, peace, pastafarianism etc., pledge of allegiance, public education, reason, religion, reproductive rights, science, taxpayer funded religion, US Constitution, violence, war, zoroastrianism etc. and especially, the separation of church and state  

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Joseph Langston

May 5, 2014

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Meeting Room in Rockrimmon Library
832 Village Center Drive

Corner of Rockrimmon and Vindicator in the Safeway Shopping Center
Colorado Springs  

This is a research data presentation, from 22 different sources, that is primarily concerned to show indicators of the rise in nonreligion, atheism, and secularity in the United States (and with minor and brief references to global rates). Throughout the presentation, I provide statistical and other research data that describes atheists, agnostics, and nones using studies from 1990 to 2014, and I refer to causality and theories on what lies behind this rise in recent decades. However, for the most part, the main thrust here is that a solid statistical and data driven case can be made for a rise in various indicators of secularity, that this rise did happen and is currently happening.

This observance is held in parallel with the National Day of Prayer, on the first Thursday in May each year. The goal of this effort is to celebrate reason—a concept all Americans can support—and to raise public awareness about the persistent threat to religious liberty posed by government intrusion into the private sphere of worship. The National Day of Reason website is co-sponsored by the American Humanist Association and the Washington Area Secular Humanists.

The Center for Religious Diversity and Public Life at UCCS is hosting an event on Tuesday, Nov. 26th at 5:00 pm. The event will feature a lecture from Dr. Arindam Chakrabarti, University of Hawaii, Manoa. He will be speaking on the question of God from Buddhist and Hindu perspectives. We are excited about this event as Dr. Chakrabarti is a very important voice in Eastern philosophy of religion. Refreshments will be provided, Park free in -in the parking garage, level 4. This will be in the University Center Theater, room 302 There is no charge for this event.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

and the Health Colorado Marketplace

Summer Westerbur

November 21, 2013
7:00 PM
315 East Costilla

Andrea Chalfin

KRCC News Director

October 17
6:30 PM

315 East Cosilla
Colorado Springs

Atheists, Skeptics, and Humanists, Oh My!

Becky Hale

President of the 
American Humanist Association

6:30 PM
September 19, 2013

Tim Gill Center 
315 East Costilla

Foundation Beyond Belief is a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation created to focus, encourage and demonstrate humanist generosity and compassion. We select and feature five charitable organizations per quarter, one in each of the following cause areas: