Losing Faith in Faith: Preacher to Atheist

[Brake4Squirrels]

Hey guys

I wanted everyone who lives in the area to know that Dan Barker, PR director of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. is scheduled to be speaking on the UW- Eau Claire campus next month!!

My organization, the College Freethought Society, is running the event with sponsorship grants from the Secular Student Alliance and the Progressive Student Association.

He will be telling his story of de-conversion from Christianity to Atheism!! There will be a question and answer session to follow!

The event is FREE, on Wednesday, April 28th, starting at 7:00 pm. in Schofield Auditorium of the UW-Eau Claire campus in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 54701.

Please spread the word and attend this event!

Brake4Squirrels (President of College Freethought Society, UWEC)

[Kydka]

If I lived anywhere near there I would be interesting in going myself. It is pretty quiet in regards to that stuff where I live. Which isn't a bad thing.

[zonmoy]

Hey guys

I wanted everyone who lives in the area to know that Dan Barker, PR director of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. is scheduled to be speaking on the UW- Eau Claire campus next month!!

My organization, the College Freethought Society, is running the event with sponsorship grants from the Secular Student Alliance and the Progressive Student Association.

He will be telling his story of de-conversion from Christianity to Atheism!! There will be a question and answer session to follow!

The event is FREE, on Wednesday, April 28th, starting at 7:00 pm. in Schofield Auditorium of the UW-Eau Claire campus in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 54701.

Please spread the word and attend this event!

Brake4Squirrels (President of College Freethought Society, UWEC)

Which building is the schofield auditorium in.

[Brake4Squirrels]

The schofield Auditorium is in the Schofield Building roughly in the center of campus. It is the big red administration building. The easiest way to get to the Auditorium is to go through the big front door, up the stairs and to the right.

Also, you can visit www.uwec.edu (UW Eau Claire campus) to find maps.

Bring your friends and fellow freethinkers and others too!

[zonmoy]

The schofield Auditorium is in the Schofield Building roughly in the center of campus. It is the big red administration building. The easiest way to get to the Auditorium is to go through the big front door, up the stairs and to the right.

Also, you can visit www.uwec.edu (UW Eau Claire campus) to find maps.

Bring your friends and fellow freethinkers and others too!

Went to it and enjoyed it. couldnt get anybody to come with me though. Dont think there would have been enough room for them anyway.

[Brake4Squirrels]

Great! Thanks for coming. That's cool that we were able to connect about this event over this message board. The next day following the event, Christian groups put on a "Losing Confidence in Atheism" event contrary to our title, "Losing Faith in Faith." They posted posters everywhere that were exact replicas of our posters, complete with one of their speakers posed at the piano as Dan Barker was on our posters. It was pretty pathetic and hilarious at the same time.

The event was a huge success. Over 700 people about. We should have had a larger auditorium reserved for it but honestly we did not expect that many people to attend. But their attendence made for an awesome event!! YAY! I'm proud of myself for organizing and hosting it.

Thanks for coming!

[SLD]

So what happened? I guess no fireworks, hunhh? No religious nutballs coming in shouting about he was going to hell? No atheist alter call?

You know that's what we need - an atheist alter call. We need to be more like Evangelists - and give people something to get excited about. Heck, you can also make a lot of money doing Christian revivals. Why can't you do it with atheist revivals?

I once had a client who claimed he made $600 for each revival, and he did one a week.

SLD

[zonmoy]

Great! Thanks for coming. That's cool that we were able to connect about this event over this message board. The next day following the event, Christian groups put on a "Losing Confidence in Atheism" event contrary to our title, "Losing Faith in Faith." They posted posters everywhere that were exact replicas of our posters, complete with one of their speakers posed at the piano as Dan Barker was on our posters. It was pretty pathetic and hilarious at the same time.

The event was a huge success. Over 700 people about. We should have had a larger auditorium reserved for it but honestly we did not expect that many people to attend. But their attendence made for an awesome event!! YAY! I'm proud of myself for organizing and hosting it.

Thanks for coming!

I saw the messages about it on the sidewalk.

[zonmoy]

So what happened? I guess no fireworks, hunhh? No religious nutballs coming in shouting about he was going to hell? No atheist alter call?

You know that's what we need - an atheist alter call. We need to be more like Evangelists - and give people something to get excited about. Heck, you can also make a lot of money doing Christian revivals. Why can't you do it with atheist revivals?

I once had a client who claimed he made $600 for each revival, and he did one a week.

SLD

Only one christian that thought there was going to be a debate instead of just an entertaining show. I dont tend to like christian/atheist debates anyway since the christians act just like neocons and pack the audience to rig the outcome.(the neocons rig the elections for their brothers in the states they control)

[Toto]

I think that this thread belongs in the new Secular Activism forum.

[Angrillori]

Missed it. dadgummit.

Did he have a list of any future speaking arrangements?

Or, to the folks at UWEC, any other cool stuff happening in Wisconsin in the near future?

[AspenMama]

The event was a huge success. Over 700 people about. We should have had a larger auditorium reserved for it but honestly we did not expect that many people to attend. But their attendence made for an awesome event!! YAY! I'm proud of myself for organizing and hosting it.

Kudos to you!! Good work.

Off topic-- I like your screen name.

[Demosthenes]

Kudos to you!! Good work.

Off topic-- I like your screen name.


me too though in honor of the Geico advertisement I would have picked Swerve&Crash4Squirrels :D