Campus Freethought Alliance

Alright. I need to get this out soon since as of tomorrow I am going on a 10 day camping trip to Pennsic! As I am the "webmaster" (techbitch), I've been working getting our net offerings up to snuff for this coming school year.

Something new to comment on. The other night at the freshman's orientation, we had some Obama campaigners signing people up to vote. They were making sure -everyone- could be signed up to vote. New students, with the election so close will be here at Case come November, and are nearly all first time voters. This is one of the more admirable things I have seen someone do in a long time.

So. I will be going to the community festival in Columbus. That is in Goodale park, in the Short North. I was there last year, and Scientology had a tent. Apparently they did so in 2006 as well.

Last year I even took their "personality test." Apparently a powered ohm meter with some extra big electrodes will test the stress levels of my brain, even though due to the skin effect of electricity it will simply pass across my chest from one electrode to the other. (Nowhere near my brain.)

I got this from the San Francisco Chronicle.

Basically, a survey of 36,000 people shows they believe in absolutely everything. 21% of people identifying as "atheist" believe in God. Apparently its very easy for most Americans to have their beliefs contradict. Way to go.

But then, to all the readers of this blog, I'm sure you've had arguments about belief. Think of the number of people who can present a logical theological argument.

Short list eh?

From our esteemed and unbiased Fox News.

From the consumerist.

Being as I'm one of those 15 in 100 people, I am currently sitting down and shutting up so as not to offend the other 85/100 with my constitution right. Because this is America. Amen

(By the way, 15/100 is 45.6 Billion people if those numbers are right. Hey..thats just about the number that end up on the right side of the intelligence bell curve. :D )

Update: Congresswoman Davis Apologizes a week later. (And over a week ago.) http://www.wbbm780.com/pages/1980701.php

She was "having a bad day." Which of course is an excuse for blaming everything on atheists.

Update: Stumble Upon gives another take (while old) on the situation. http://xkcd.com/154/

Basically, a US Congress woman said " And it’s dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists!" and more.

So to write this before it becomes too distant history. Our recent (Last Tuesday) event was a showing of the God Delusion Debate DVD at Strosacker Auditorium, and I have to say it went over rather well. This was our first event co hosted with Christian InterVarsity Fellowship, which is a great opportunity to promote thought among people. We had around 150 people during the showing, which was even more than we had for Ask An Atheist forum.

I work in IT, so there is a decent bit of time to kill inbetween running defrag on machines, or waiting for Windows Updates to install. When no extra cleaning or similar needs to be done, I use Stumble-Upon. I will often get up to a click every 15 seconds, so I get to see -alot- in the world, including programming, science, religion, tech sectors, medicine, art, music etc.

So I write this in vi. I have gvim, vim and cream all installed...3
different versions of vi. ViViVi. Even my posts will be attacked as
evil. (vi is one of the 2 good unix/linux editors.)

That said, I am one of the more extreme skeptics here. I find an
enormous problem with things of faith, for the singular reason that I
cannot place them under the scrutiny of logic. Beliefs founded entirely
on faith are untouchable. I personally find very little need for faith
in my life.