What to do tonight: Join the Skeptics!

[yortsed snacilbuper]

You gotta believe in a group called Steel City Skeptics.

If not, perhaps you don't know about the work they do, organizing social events and lectures while challenging people to ask questions and then to think about the answers.

"They are one of two or three informal secular groups that blog and hold various meet-ups, discussion groups, and social events," said Stephen Hirtle, a professor of information sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. "They try to bring nonreligious, atheists, agnostics and free-thinkers together."

The Skeptics will be joined by nationally known demographer Barry Kosmin and others tonight at 6:30 at Clapp Hall on Bigelow Boulevard in Oakland for a symposium on Secularism on Campus. The event was organized by the Center for Inquiry, based in Buffalo, N.Y., and is open to the public.

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/ae/books/what-to-do-tonight-join-the-skeptics-629723/

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1. Skeptics, the Dems' best friend

Almost all of us will vote for Obama and virtually none of us will vote Repuglican. Even the theists among Dems should at least listen to what we're saying. I assure you that we're listening to you.

We're not going to agree on everything -- yes, we tend to get a little cranky about religion. The one thing we ask is that liberal theists join with us to call out the radical, crazy theism in politics, for if there is one thing that history teaches us it's that politics and religion is a toxic mix. Always!

I cringe every time Obama ends a speech with, "God bless...". I find those words more than offensive to a country whose laws include Article VI and the First Amendment. Yet those words have become a sort of tic with every President since Reagan. But if Obama didn't say them the Repugs would go batshit crazy and probably try to impeach him. (okay, a little hyperbole here.)

All skeptics are welcome here at DU.