AOF Events Calendar
Upcoming Events
| 2024 Sep 13, 07:00PM - 09:00PM Free Movie and Discussion (Recreation) |
| 2024 Sep 15, 12:00AM Ask An Atheist Day (Secular Holiday) |
| 2024 Sep 15, 12:00AM World Cleanup Day (Secular Holiday) |
| 2024 Sep 17, 07:00PM - 08:00PM Board of Directors Meeting (Planning Meeting) |
| 2024 Sep 19, 12:00AM Talk Like A Pirate Day (Secular Holiday) |
| 2024 Sep 22, 12:00AM Equinox (September) (Secular Holiday) |
| 2024 Sep 23, 12:00AM Banned Book Week (Secular Holiday) |
| 2024 Sep 28, 09:00AM - 11:00AM Adopt-a-Highway Cleanup (Community Service) |
| 2024 Sep 29, 02:00PM - 04:00PM Potluck Picnic in the Park (General Meeting) |
| 2024 Sep 30, 12:00AM Blasphemy Day (Secular Holiday) |
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The world of freethought: a deep, vast commonwealth, multifarious, diverse and prismed as a snowflake. You won't find a lot of agreement here. But why should you? Freethinkers are a heckling, independent lot. What you will find is discussion, challenge, opinion, inquiry and rich food to fatten your thought. In brief, this is a place to learn more, to explore other groups like AOF, and some very unlike. A place to challenge yourself, to grow your horizons. It may seem a lot. But do not worry, you have the rest of your life to do your homework. You’ve barely begun.
Sister Groups within the Sacramento Community of Reason
o Reason Center, a home and venue for all of us
o HAGSA, the Humanist Association of the Greater Sacramento Area (in abeyance)
o SacFAN, Sacramento Freethinkers, Atheists & Nonbelievers
o Sacramento African American Humanists (aka Black Humanists & Nonbelievers, BHNBS)
o Sacramento ThinkAtheist (see its parent group under Family Resources below)
o Sunday Assembly Sacramento, a humanist alternative to church
o Recovery from Religion (RfR), A meetup group for those escaping dogma
o Compassionate Humanists, in Roseville
o Stockton Area Atheists & Freethinkers
o Central Valley Alliance of Atheists & Skeptics (CVAAS), with its Meetup Page
o AgASA, the Atheists and Agnostic Student Association of UC Davis (and its Wikipage)
o CSUS Secular Student Alliance
o Sacramento City College Secular Student Alliance, formerly the Sac City College Freethinkers
o SAS, the Sacramento Area Skeptics
o FACTS, aka the First Atheist Church of True Science
o Greater Sacramento FFRF Chapter - Please email "sacffrf (at) gmail (dot) com" for info
(click to FFRF to learn more about the national organization)
o The Skeptics Dictionary, a project of the late Robert Todd Carroll
o Teaching About Religion (local educational resource)
Major Secular events in the Sacramento area
o California Freethought Day - a day in October
o Sacramento Darwin Day - a day in mid-February
o Human Light - a day in late December (for the Facebook page, click here)
o National Day of Reason - Each year, the 1st Thursday in May
National & International organizations
o FFRF, the Freedom From Religion Foundation
o American Atheists, the group that began all the hoopla
o American Humanist Association
o The Secular Coalition for America
o CSH, the Council for Secular Humanism
o Atheist Alliance International
oThe Satanic Temple - Really, just freethinkers in black robes
o The Rationality Unleashed Project
o The Secular Global Institute
o National Atheist Party + its Facebook Page. AKA, Secular America. Yes, there's a National Atheist Party, jump back!
o International Humanist and Ethical Union
o IHS, the Institute for Humanist Studies
o Openly Secular, seeking an end to discrimination against secularists
oTruth Seeker Publishing, the oldest freethought journal in the West
o The Freethinker (from the Brits)
o Canadian Association for Science and Reason
o The Military Religious Freedom Foundation
o Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers, atheists in foxholes do exist!
oThe Original Motto Project, getting America back to “E Pluibus Unum”
oNo More "In God We Trust", because God on money is just wrong
o Progressive Atheists in Australia
o Skeptical Inquirer (formerly CSICOP, Committiee for Skeptical Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal)
o Independent Investigations Group, investigating paranormal claims from a scientific pov, because somebody has to
o LogiCal-LA, a place for critical thinkers to meet & schmooze
o Americans United for Separation of Church and State
o The Institute for Church-State Studies
o Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
General Resources and Information
o Atheists Websites Directory. You think this is a big list? Meh.
o Atheist Girl, another directory
o Atheism Webrings, a collection of collections of freethought websites (will keep you busy)
o The Atheist Research Collaborative, aka Center for Atheist Research
o The Black Sun Journal, another ex-minister speaking out
o The English Atheist (the Religion Page, archived)
o The Skeptics' Bible is a useful reference!
o Bible Trash (offline, archived)
o Atheist Empire strikes back (from Liverpool)
o The Infidels, aka the Secular Web, aka the Internet Infidels
o Positive Atheism (archived)
o IronChariots, a huge wiki of apologetics & contra-apologetics
o Undo Jesus is about as in-your-face as they get
o Jim Lippard's Atheism & Christianity page
o Two blogs by Paul Storey: Natural View and Atheist Life
o Jesus Never Existed? loves controversy
o The Event Horizon reader (archive)
o The Skeptical Review archive, by J. Farrell Till, a very-ex minister
o Biblical Errancy by Dennis McKinsey, all 192 issues, huge file, be patient. Happy reading!
o BibleViz, a visual interactive chart of Bible problems. Whoa. I mean, whoa.
o The Evil Bible, all the scuttlebutt
o The Orbit: Atheism, Activism and Culture
o Skepchick, women on science, skepticism, and pseudoscience
o Edward T. Babinski's Religion Blog
o Atheist in America, aka "FlameWarrior"
o Rosa Rubicondior, a blog of religion, science & politics by an atheist-humanist
o The Secular Right, a blog of conservative freethought
o Why won't God heal amputees?
o The God Contention, with religious & secular answers to the Big Questions
o The Savage Truth by the Right Rev. James Huber (he spells it 'Huger' sometimes)
o Teaching About Religion, a national educational resource
o The Secular Directory, a directory of humanist/freethought/skeptic groups & events everywhere
o The Freethinker's Directory (similar resource, in .pdf format, click here for other formats!)
o The Godless Geeks of Silicon Valley
o Secular Activism, online classes, training & webinars for the secular mind
o The Pissy Bishop is dedicated to freethought expression
o Anonymous vs Scientology - Why they protest
o Planet Atheism - Aggregated atheist blogs
o Patheos Atheist, the Atheist Voice in a conversation of faith
o The Critical Thinker Academy
o The Religious Right in California
(a 1992 chart from Project Tocsin, a bit outdated, still fascinating)
o Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, "FSM" sightings the world over!
o United Church of Bacon: Hail Bacon, Full of grease, the Lard is with thee
o The Wittenburg Door, a genuinely likable Christian site (they do exist)
o Sojourners, another!
Family Resources, Social Networks, and Building a Community
o Grief Beyond Belief, faith-free grief support
o After School Satan, bringing the Dark Lord to our public schools
o Atheist Zone (with its Sacramento-area branch!)
o Freethinker Match, a dating service
o Agnostic.com, also a dating service
o Secular Organizations for Sobriety, a secular alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous
o Rational Recovery, another alternative
o LifeRing, yet another
o The Atheist Census - Stand up, be counted!
Science and Evolution
o NCSE, the National Center for Science Education
o Talk Origins, an excellent resource, especially these pages:
o The Case for Common Descent (29+ Lines of Evidence)
o Index to Creationist Claims (with replies)
o The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
o Pharyngula, the PZ Meyers Science Blog
o Ed Babinski's Creation & Evolution Blog
o Dave Matson and Dave Matson (Blog)
o The Epic Idiot (archived)
o Bible and Science (or, the Institute for Biblical & Scientific Studies)
o Earth and Life - One of the neatest science posters ever, courtesy of The Brights
o The Geological Time Spiral, another great poster
o The Radial Tree of Life (Hillis Diagram), another!
History
oThis Day in Church History, a Christian site with a sense of humor (archived)
o History of Religion and the Geography of War, splendid animation
o The (Real) Christian Heritage (archived, original site is offline)
o Christian Atrocities (archived)
o The Bible - Who Wrote it, Compiled it, Edited it
(by the Staff of The Straight Dope, an epic in five parts)
o Jesusquest (archived) - Who was this Jesus, anyway?
o "Things They Don't Tell You ..." (also archived)
Reference and Research
o The Religious Tolerance website
o Adherents.com, for statistics on religion
o Epiphenom, the Science of Religion and Nonbelief
o The Godchecker - More gods than you can shake a stick at
o Meta-religion - Still not sure what this is ...
De-conversion support and testimonials
o The Ex-Christian Network and New ExChristian Network, useful forums
o Ex-Minister, for clergy who walked away
o The Clergy Project, another resource for doubting clergy
o Quit Mormon, legal assitance for ex-Mormons
oJehovah's Witnesses Facts, for recovering JWs
o Free Minds, for 'JW' Escapees
o Apostates of Islam (please check your jihads at the door)
Recommended secular charities
o Sacramento Blood Source
Schedule a donation now. When you do, please use the AOF Blood Source ID# 4857
Freethought-related gifts & merchandise 
o The EvolveFish Company (stickers, buttons, lapel pins)
o The Freethought Store (on Amazon.com)
o Cafe Press Freethought Gifts
o The Bank of Wisdom (freethought CDs, posters & busts - no not that kind)
o Atheist Bliss (Photos & Portraits)
Not enough? Then visit the Atheism United Huge List of Atheist/Agnostic/Skeptic/Humanist Websites.