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The Reed Secular Alliance is excited to announce that Phil Zuckerman, the author of “Society Without God” and contributor to the Huffington Post, has been rescheduled for this coming Friday.  Come listen to his talk “Faith No More”!  The lecture is on Friday, April 22, 2011, at 5 pm in the Psychology Auditorium at Reed [...]

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Why Are You Atheists So Angry? Come join the Reed Secular Alliance as we welcome atheist blogger, Greta Christina ’83, to speak at Reed. Christina, a Reed alumna and Religion major, has been a freelance writer since 1989. She currently blogs at http://gretachristina.typepad.com about atheism, sexuality, and her queer identity. Christina will discuss the atheist [...]

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The Reed Secular Alliance is pleased to announce that Greg Epstein’s lecture is now online.  The November 19th talk centers around Greg Epstein’s new book, Good Without God:  What A Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe.  Below you can watch the unedited Humanist speech. Unfortunately, the talk cuts out at the tail end of Epstein’s response [...]

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On his Good Without God book tour, Greg Epstein spoke to a standing room only crowd at Reed College on Thursday night.  The event, which was cosponsored by the Reed Secular Alliance, Kol Shalom Humanistic Jews of Portland, and the Portland Coalition of Reason, drew a crowd of 170.  All involved were pleased with the [...]

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Recently, the Reed Secular Alliance had the opportunity to interview Greg Epstein, who will be speaking about his book, Good Without God at Reed on November 19th.  The talk will take place this Thursday in the Psychology Auditorium at 7:30 pm.  There will be plenty of free food.  We hope to see you there. RSA:  [...]

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Roughly 200 people attended Darrel Ray’s The God Virus lecture at Reed College on October 7th.  During the event, Dr. Ray made the case that religion is indeed a virus-like phenomenon, as it infects individuals and societies.  Drawing heavily from Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and memetic theory, Darrel Ray argued that the idea of religion [...]

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The Reed Secular Alliance is hosting a Pastafarian dinner with Darrel Ray, author of The God Virus.  We will meet at Eliot Circle at 4:45 pm and head out to an Italian Food restaurant, where we will be touched by His Noodly Appendage.  The Pastafarian dinner will be from 5 to 6 pm at a [...]

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Join the Reed Secular Alliance as we welcome Greg Epstein, author of Good Without God.   Epstein will speak about his new book, which offers a challenge to the religious fundamentalism of the Christian Right and the New Atheism, as espoused by Richard Dawkins.  In short, the author provides a much-needed voice for Secular Humanism today, [...]

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The Reed Secular Alliance has secured five tickets for the Richard Dawkins’s upcoming talk at Portland State.  The event will take place on Saturday, October 10th, 2009 at 6:30 pm.  Dawkins will speak about The Greatest Show on Earth:  Evidence for Evolution. Tickets are free, and include transportation from Reed College to the event.  There [...]

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The God Virus at Reed

Presenting the RSA’s Fall 2009 Lecture Join the Reed Secular Alliance as we welcome author Dr. Darrel Ray to speak about The God Virus.  The lecture will take place on Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 in the Chapel of Eliot Hall. Dr. Ray will chart the contagion course of religion in our society, as it affects [...]

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