When: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 6pmWe're heading back downtown....Reginelli's was very popular the first time we went there the spring and we're trying it out again. Street parking is free beginning at 6pm.
Come by for a slice and a little conversation with your fellow heathens!
When: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 6pmIt wouldn't be spring if we didn't hit The Columns at least once before it gets too hot to enjoy their lovely outdoor ambience. You can listen to the clanking of the streetcars and enjoy the history of this favorite, elegant watering hole.
The next day will be National Day of Reason (our answer to the annual National Day of Prayer), so it's only reasonable that we might have some reasonable things to talk about. Like how important reason is to life....as opposed to magic and myth.
We'll try to commandeer several tables on the porch where we can pick up some cool evening breezes and keep adding chairs as needed.
Haven't been in a while? Stop by for a few minutes and say hello. As always, we will continue to encourage stimulating conversation and to provide a welcoming place for our freethinking friends to stop by and say hello!
See Calendar for more information.
When: Saturday, April 21, 2012, 10:30 AMJoin us for our annual gathering to commemorate Charles Darwin!
IMPORTANT- Tell UNO Police that you're there for the UNO Darwin Day as they will be screening for another campus event. There's a “hidden” parking lot you may use; look for a right turn directly after the Engineering Building, the "big white" building up front.
Featured speakers include:
Baton Rouge, LA — (March 27, 2012) – At Senator Santorum’s March 23rd rally in Pineville Louisiana, student activist, Zack Kopplin, had the chance to question the Senator about creationism laws. Kopplin, who has led the effort to repeal Louisiana’s creationism law, the misnamed and misguided Louisiana Science Education Act, asked Santorum about the Louisiana Science Education Act and Santorum’s proposed amendment to the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act, which served as a model for Louisiana’s law.
Zack Kopplin questions Presidential candidate, Rick Santorum, on his creationism amendment to No Child Left Behind from Jason Berry on Vimeo.
When: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 6pmWith ample parking in the back, and space to gather around tables. Food and drink, what more could one ask for?
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When: Friday, April 13, 2012, 7:00 PMThe main Greer-Heard session will feature Christian apologist Gary Habermas and outspoken skeptic Michael Shermer in dialog about the afterlife.
This event will be held in Leavell Chapel.
The conference brings together scholars from opposing views, sometimes a Christian and a non-Christian, and at other times an evangelical and a non-evangelical, to discuss an important issue in a civil manner.
NOSHA members can attend the Friday event for $10 if you check in at the door and tell them you are with NOSHA.
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When: Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 7:00 PMLet's face it....Joan had major problems with religion! (Note the burning at the stake.) So it should be easy to understand why this play written by longtime NOSHA member, William Gautreaux, "Je m'appelais Jeanne d'Arc (My Name Was Joan of Arc)" might be of interest to some of our crowd.
This is a one-act play that he wrote which will be performed in French by his French 2, 3, 4, and 5 students. The play won FIRST PLACE in the French Play competition at Southeastern Louisiana University's Foreign Language Festival on March 27!
Synopsis of Scenes
We'll pick a place to grab a bite on the Westbank afterwards for whomever is interested and can stay.
When: Sunday, April 8, 2012, 8:00 PMIt's Easter....let's have a proper heathen celebration!
Direct from the Reason Rally and American Atheist Convention in Washington, D.C., Brother Sam returns to New Orleans to perform REVIVAL!
A participatory event with music provided by Chris Saunders, a New Orleans fixture on the jazz scene, where every performance is unique, and you are part of the show! Serious ideas and wild humor, music and fun for everyone.
"Raise hell and put a chunk under it!"
Visit www.samsingleton.com for more info and to purchase advance tickets ($12) or pay at the door ($15). This show is rated PG-13 for language. Parents, please use discretion.
Click here to buy your ticket: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/227852
Folks, Activist Zach Kopplin is currently headed to Alexandria to confront Rick Santorum tonight about the LSEA, Louisiana Science Education Act.
American Zombie has procured a videographer to record Zach's question and Santorum's response. AZ is going to cover the cost of the videographer, which is $200, but we would like to ask anyone who supports the cause to donate to help defray the cost. Please use the Paypal link here:
All donations will go directly to NOSHA, not AZ, and anything over the $200 amount will stay with the organization.
Thanks for your help!
When: Saturday, March 17, 2012, 4:00 PMAs a variation from our customary guest speaker format for monthly meetings, we hold the occasional group participation event where those in the audience may discuss a specific topic of interest and concern to secularists. This month it will be...
“How do you manage your atheism/secularism in your various roles?”
Such topics to be discussed:
See Calendar for more information.
When: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 6pmThere's lots going on in the "non-belief" world the next six weeks, so we need to come together and chat. And don't forget the eating!
With ample parking in the back, and space to gather around tables. Food and drink, what more could one ask for?
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When: Wednesday, March 7 at 6pmWe hope everyone had a fun time at parades with friends and family. There will be lots to talk about especially now that the political year is heating up and religion seems to be at the forefront of the national discourse.
With ample parking in the back, and space to gather around tables. Food and drink, what more could one ask for?
Stop on by, pull up a chair and say hello, have a burger, enjoy stimulating conversation.
When: Saturday, February 25, 2012, 4:00 PM John M. Barry is a prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author whose books have won more than twenty awards. In 2005 the National Academy of Sciences named "The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history - a study of the 1918 pandemic", the year’s outstanding book on science or medicine. The title of his talk will be "The Birth of Liberty and the Making of the First Amendment"
In 2006 the National Academy also invited him to give its annual Abel Wolman Distinguished Lecture; he is the only non-scientist ever to give that lecture. In 1998 "Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America", won the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians for the year’s best book of American history.
Barry's next book is "Roger Williams and The Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty". Two fault lines have divided America throughout our history: how we define the relationship between church and state and between the individual and the state.
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Our guest speaker from January, Sean Faircloth, the Director of Strategy and Policy for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.
When: Wednesday, February 1 at 6pmWith ample parking in the back, and space to gather around tables. Food and drink, what more could one ask for?
Stop on by, pull up a chair and say hello, have a burger, enjoy stimulating conversation.
When: Tuesday, January 17 at 6pmWe're trying the downtown location of Reginelli's to give us something new for the new year.
Street parking is free beginning at 6pm and there is usually more in the CBD as people start to leave work.
They have a Tuesday $2.00 pitcher of beer special, so a pretty good deal for beer drinkers. (We expect you to share a little bit.)
If you haven't been down to their new joint on Poydras yet, it's a good way to take a little tour and see what's new.
As always, we will continue to encourage stimulating conversation and to provide a welcoming place for our freethinking friends to stop by and say hello!
When: Saturday, January 21, 2012, 4:00 PM Our guest speaker will be Sean Faircloth, the Director of Strategy and Policy for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.
Sean Faircloth served five terms in the Maine Legislature. Faircloth served on the Judiciary and Appropriations Committees. In his last term Faircloth was elected Majority Whip by his colleagues.
An accomplished legislator, Faircloth successfully spearheaded over thirty laws, including the so-called Deadbeat Dad child support law which saved Maine taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and was later incorporated into federal law. Faircloth had numerous legislative successes in children's issues and justice system reform.
In two years as Executive Director of Secular Coalition for America, Faircloth conceived and led the Secular Decade plan, a specific strategic vision for resecularizing American government. Faircloth writes about his ten point vision of a Secular American government in his upcoming book "Attack of the Theocrats: How the Religious Right Harms Us All and What to Do About It."
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When: Wednesday, January 4, 2012, 6:00 PMWe figured we'd give everyone a much needed break this month, especially after coming off our annual Winter Solstice party and the final push to Christmas weekend. (Even non-believers can enjoy a little of merriment during these holiest of days, don't you think?)
So, we'll head back to the lovely Irish House for some wonderful cold weather food and good cheer.
I'm including an Irish New Year's toast that is certainly very humanist and sums up nicely the goal for our monthly socials:
An Irish Toast;"In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want."
As always, we will continue to encourage stimulating conversation and to provide a welcoming place for our freethinking friends to stop by and say hello!
Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end to divine things. - Hippocrates
