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About Us
Metro State Atheists is an affiliate of The Center for Inquiry (CFI), Secular Student Alliance and American Atheists; Which are not-for-profit organizations uniting freethinking, skeptic, secularist, atheist/agnostic, and humanist students and student organizations.
Our purposes are:
- To encourage freedom from superstition, irrationalism, and dogma;
- To further the acceptance and application of science, reason, and critical thinking in all areas of human endeavor;
- Advancing the public understanding and appreciation of science;
- To challenge misrepresentations of non-religious convictions and lifestyles;
- To create a campus community for freethinkers and skeptics.;
- To counter all forms of religious political extremism;
- To defend religious freedom, promote freedom of thought and inquiry concerning religious beliefs, creeds, dogmas, tenets, rituals, and practices, and, to advocate, labor for, and promote in all lawful ways the complete and absolute separation of state and church;
- To defend individual freedoms and civil liberties for all persons, regardless of race, sex, gender, class, creed, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability and Fighting racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, and heterosexism;
- To unite freethinkers, skeptics, and humanists and consolidate campus resources to engage in such social, educational, legal, and cultural activity as will be useful and beneficial to the members of Metro State Atheists and to society as a whole;
- Exposing pseudoscience;
- Investigating claims of the paranormal;
- Safeguarding the freedom of expression and opposing censorship;
- Defending academic freedom;
- Challenging academic fads and orthodoxy;
- Debating the philosophy of science, skepticism, and theism;
- Exploring secular and humanist ethics;
- To collect and disseminate information, data, and literature on all religions and promote a more thorough understanding of them, their origins, and their histories;
- To encourage the development and public acceptance of a humane ethical system stressing the mutual sympathy, understanding, and interdependence of all people and the corresponding responsibility of each individual in relation to society;
- To develop and propagate a social philosophy in which humankind is central and must itself be the source of strength, progress, and ideals for the well-being and happiness of humanity;
We are also affiliated with the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and COCORE.
We are also a member of College Atheists of Colorado.
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- Kampus Krusade for Khrist......hmmmm...something about this is fishy? #fb 2 weeks ago
- UCD Atheists are in the process of books Joe Nickel for a talk (or 2) in Denver in late Nov! More info to come! #CFI #atheism #paranormal 2 weeks ago
- Was told by a christian that Lucy is a fake. FAIL. 2 weeks ago
- UCD Atheists is now an official group! YAY! 2 weeks ago
- RT @reedes: My new @JREF Swift article detailing my experience at James Ray appearance in Denver on Tuesday evening. http://bit.ly/1Ng0cv 2 weeks ago
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- Archaeoporn
- Bad Astronomy
- Center For Inquiry
- Clashing Culture
- Colloquy
- Comedy Jesus
- Crap-Based Medicine
- David Grinspoon's World
- End Hereditary Religion
- Lambda Delta: Tony Sidaway\’s science blog
- Left Agenda
- Lone Wolfs Den
- Metro State Atheists’ myspace
- Pharyngula
- Planet Atheism
- Rational Response Squad
- Richard Wiseman Blog
- Sam Singleton: Atheist Evangelist
- Sarah Schoonmaker
- Science & Soul
- Science Notes
- Skepacabra
- Skepchick: Critical Thinking at its Finest
- Slapstick Politics
- Space Photos
- Splendid Elles
- Tauriq Moosa – Columns, Op-Eds, Articles and Essays
- Teen Skepchick
- The Colorado Coalition of Reason
- The Freethought Books Project
- The Gargoyle Post
- The Skepbitch
- The Trickster Tales
- Victor J. Stenger
- We Are Alone
- Whatever
- Writing Every Day
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- Should "In God We Trust" Remain On Our Money?
- Epicurus: The Problem of Evil
- 2012: Apocalypse Not
- High Performance Liquid Chromatography and Gas Chromatography Coupling With Mass Spectrometry
- About Us
- Bishop blasts 9-year-old rape victim's abortion
- Food for Freethought Flyer
- Differential Equations: How they relate to Calculus.
- Best Freaking Quote Ever!!!!
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