http://freethought.tamu.edu/org/ (PC Press Internet CD, 03/1996)
Secular Organizations
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- African-Americans for Humanism is engaged in developing
humanism in the African-American community. We exist for those
who are unchurched or free from religion and who are looking for
a rational and ethical approach to life.
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- The Council for Democratic and Secular Humanism (CODESH) was
founded by Paul Kurtz, professor emeritus of Philosophy - State
State University of New York at Buffalo, in 1980 to defend
secularism and reason in an age of increasing religious
extremism and irrationality.
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- Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.
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Since 1978 the non-profit Freedom From Religion Foundation has
been working to keep state and church separate and to educate the public
about the views of nontheists.
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- The Human Awareness Institute (HAI) empowers individuals to know who
they are as potent, loving, contributing human beings. HAI promotes
personal growth and social evolution by replacing ignorance and fear with
awareness and love.
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- The NCSE is the national clearinghouse for scientific information on the
evolution-creation controversy-- a source of information for students, the
media, scholars, and all people concerned about sectarian attacks on science
education.
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- SOS is a non-profit network of autonomous, non-professional
local groups dedicated solely to helping individuals achieve
and maintain sobriety.
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The Skeptics Society is a member-supported organization of
scholars, scientists, historians, magicians, and the intellectually curious,
that sponsors a lecture series at Caltech and publishes the quarterly magazine
Skeptic, for the purpose of promoting science and critical thinking,
and disseminating information on pseudoscience, pseudohistory, the paranormal,
magic, superstition, fringe claims and groups, revolutionary science,
protoscience, and the history of science and pseudoscience, in articles,
essays, reviews, and letters.
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- A Student Group at
Texas A & M University
serving the interests of non-religious students and staff.
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- Arizona Secular Humanists, Inc. was founded in 1994 to achieve
comprehensive equality for "nonbelievers" by encouraging public education
in the methods of critical thinking and scientific education, and to
promote open and rational inquiry as the most reliable approach for
obtaining knowledge.
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- at Michigan State University.
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- The Atheist Network
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- at The University of Maryland.
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- The BC Skeptics support the aims of CSICOP, The Committee for the Scientific
Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.
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- Student Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- Committed to uniting nonreligious and freethinking students across the
nation and world and to encourage the formation of local student
freethought groups in colleges and universities.
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- Heathens and Heretics at MIT.
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- The North Texas Church of Freethought was conceived as an alternative to
the conventional faith-based religious organizations. We offer the benefits
of traditional church membership to those who are uncomfortable with
supernatural beliefs: community and fellowship with those of like mind, a
vehicle for personal growth and fulfillment, affirmation of a naturalistic
view of the world as a positive life choice for individuals and families,
and a sense of belonging within the larger community.
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- North Texas Skeptics is a local, autonomous organization devoted to
promoting the use of science and rational thinking in viewing the world in
which we live.
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This society organizes Prometheus camps in Finland. A Prometheus camp is
a non-religious alternative to confirmation class camps organized by the
Lutheran Church of Finland for youngsters at age of 14-15.
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- Shreveport Humanists, Inc. (SHUME) offers fellowship, speakers, and
open debate to humanists, skeptics, rationalists, and anyone interested
in learning more about these subjects. Our purpose is to promote a better
understanding of humanism in Northwest Louisiana, help individuals develop
ethically and intellectually, and counter various superstitious forms of
thinking prevalent in society.
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- A loosely organized group of freethinkers at the South Dakota School of Mines &
Technology.
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This society serves as the interest, cultural and legal protection group
of non-religious people in Finland.
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