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The Center for Inquiry-Los Angeles wants to gather freethinkers and rational people in a purely social setting. We want to introduce people who share a common rational worldview - that is, the idea that the universe operates on principles and ideas which are or will be explained by science and rational means. Paranormal and religious followers have, in many ways, dominated the media and the culture. Consequently, many skeptics and non-religious people experience a feeling of isolation in their communities, and even among friends and family. We seek to erase that feeling by getting some of the thousands of freethinkers and rationalists in the area together. We sincerely hope you'll join us.
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Brain Lectures in Costa Mesa OC Skeptics Supper Club
Eddie Tabash, the Chair of CFI-L.A. and a board member of CFI Transnational, also chairs the national legal committee of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. A noted constitutional lawyer, he will explain how the attack on gay rights demonstrates that the religious right is as string as ever. Come hear what you can do to stop this horrible menace from dismantling the modern secular state. Held at the Costa Mesa Community Center at 1845 Park Avenue, Costa Mesa. map Admission
Tom Quinn Yahweh is a mess. He wants love but is full of wrath; demands obedience but comes up with humans; and insists that history go his way but keeps starting over with Eden, the Flood, Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah, Egypt, and Canaan. Emmy-nominated writer/producer Tom Quinn will explore how this god came to be and how he has psychologically evolved over the centuries from a lonely fertility god into the all-powerful and all-knowing, if slightly confused, deity we know today. The stories about God reveal a colorful literary character who changes, grows, learns, and occasionally screws up. He is driven, wise, demanding, rather an egotist, often short-sighted, and forgiving. Maybe it's because the god of the Bible is actually a hybrid of two earlier gods: El and Yahweh. Each had his own personality, priesthood, and agenda, and each can still be found in the pages of the Old Testament, which was written to fuse them into a single, hybrid deity. His personality is a tug of war between these two earlier deities. Quinn has written and produced programs for the Discovery Channel, History Channel, and others, and has traveled the world making programs that explain silly ideas and bizarre beliefs - from urban legends and The Da Vinci Code to religious myths and conspiracy theories. A graduate of the American Film Institute, Quinn worked in development for HBO and Dreamworks and has been a Los Angeles-based film critic and entertainment reporter. Excerpts from his upcoming book, What Do You Do with a Chocolate Jesus? (An Irreverent History of the New Testament), can be found on his blog site: Choco-Jesus.blogspot.com. Held at the Costa Mesa Community Center at 1845 Park Avenue, Costa Mesa. map Admission
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IMPORTANT NOTE: WE ARE CURRENTLY MEETING THE 3rd WEEK OF THE MONTH,
ALTERNATING WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. For more info, please contact Dave Richards at: david[at]iigwest.com.
CFI Community of Orange County
The Fullerton Atheists and Agnostics Students for Science and Skepticism
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