There are plenty of meetup groups in this area that plan thoughtful and interesting events designed to promote discussion and thought. It is not the goal of this group to compete with those groups. This group was originally started to bring together Atheists with serious drinking habits. After the first two meetups it was decided that we should be more inclusive and not so strictly anti-theistic. What we're really trying to do here is assemble a group of people who like to get inappropriately d …

Do you favor the secular ideals of fairness, justice, liberty, and equality? Would you like to see reason and pragmatism used in our governance, instead of blind ideology and appeals to emotion? It is often said that "reality has a liberal bias". Debate in this nation has become increasingly noxious, mostly due to the stubborn irrationality of our society's more "regressive" elements. People of a more politically open-minded inclination often find themselves to be needlessly on the defensive. …