Posts Tagged ‘Seattle Atheists’

So, on Sunday, the day this story about the Seattle Atheists bus signs appeared in the Seattle Times, someone launched a DoS (Denial of Service) attack against SeattleAtheist.org. It was so cute. I guess we have arrived!

SEATTLE ATHEISTS LAUNCHES METRO BUS OUTREACH CAMPAIGN FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Seattle Atheists will begin its bus outreach campaign on Wednesday, April 1st, 2009, on King County Metro buses in the downtown Seattle area. The campaign will run for two months and will feature three brightly-colored interior signs featuring quotes from important and well-regarded historical figures: [...]

Thanks to Seattle Weekly and Neil Estep for a very nice story on the signs. In contrast to the holiday hubbub caused by those signs in the state Capitol building last December (“Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds”)—which were put up by an out-of-town group and arguably backfired—Seattle Atheists [...]

#seattleatheists or Twitter for non-stop, continuous Twittering about the Chris Rauch talk at the Seattle Atheist member meeting.

Update on a little side project I’ve been working on for a few months. Seattle Atheists President Case will be talking about the new Seattle Atheists bus sign campaign on Valerie Tarico’s SCAN TV show, Moral Politics, on Friday the 20th at 8:00 p.m. Watch live at http://www.scantv.org/. The Seattle Atheists advertising campaign begins April [...]

From our friends to the north, Seattleatheists.org: We applaud President Obama in trying to move our government and our people away from use of religion as a divisive political tool.  A good deed is a good deed, whether the motivation is secular or faith-based.  Religious organizations might reasonably make use of government funds to help [...]

This is a cross-post by Valerie Tarico, author of The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth and the founder of Wisdom Commons. Many thanks to Valerie. Atheists are arrogant. Who hasn’t heard it? Arrogance is just one of their repellent qualities, of course. They are also ungenerous, cold, lonely, untrustworthy, amoral, and aggressive. You shouldn’t [...]

What follows is Dan Barker’s reply about the negative response from Seattle-area Atheist organizations, including me (founder of Tacoma Atheists, but not speaking for them as a group) and Seattle Atheists. (Note: from what I’ve read from various bloggers, including the Friendly Atheist, the response has been more mixed than the 99% in favor of [...]