AOF April General Meeting, Sun April 8, 1:30 p.m. April 8, 2007

The speaker at April’s AOF meeting is Bobbie Kirkhart, who is currently vice president of the Secular Coalition for America (SCA). She poses the subject of this presentation as a question, “Don’t We All Disbelieve in the Same God? and will address the current status of the various organized freethought groups and the enigma surrounding their seeming inability to unite into one group. This incapacity to come together persists, despite the situation of being such a maligned minority, and this talk will discuss some of the reasons for this, the advantages and disadvantages of diversity, and the major characteristics of some formal and informal groups. We will look at current cooperative efforts and explore the subtle differences between the terms we use, such as atheist, agnostic, bright, and humanist.

Bobbie Kirkhart lives in Los Angeles, and she has served in a variety of influential capacities, locally and worldwide. She was co-president of Atheists United (L.A.) and was formerly president of the Atheist Alliance International. Besides her role in the SCA, she now serves on the board of the Institute for Humanist Studies and on the advisory board of the Humanist Association of Nepal. This will be an excellent opportunity to meet and hear Bobbie, who previously spoke to AOF in October of 2002.
She is a prolific writer. In addition to her regular President’s Messages in The Rational Alternative and in Secular Nation, her work has been printed in Free Inquiry, American Atheist, La Raison and HUMAN magazines, as well as the Humanist Network News. She is a contributing author in three books: Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion; The Fundamentals of Extremism: the Christian Right in America; and in the soon-to-be-released Everything You Know About God Is Wrong (the Book).

Sunday, April 8, 2007, 1:30 p.m.
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