Come join us in the Dogwood Room of the IMU at 8pm for our weekly Russell’s Tea Party.

This week, Professor Kristi Montooth from the Biology Department will be talking to us. Her talk is titled “Evolving metabolisms: A story of why the fruit fly loves your kitchen.”

This should prove to be a good time and I hope to see you there.

Come join us in Swain East 105 at 8pm for our weekly movie night.

This week we will be watching The Boondock Saints. This continues our series of “good movies that are marginally related to religion.” This movie is about two brothers that become vigilantes after a message from God. I’m not one for your standard testosterone-fest, but this movie is really great and is certainly one of my favorites. :)

I hope to see you there.

Join us at 8pm in the Dogwood Room in the IMU for games and snacks at our Sunday Funday! It’s about that time for midterms so de-stress with us a bit.

I hope to see you there.

Come join us for our weekly Movie Night in Swain East 105 at 8pm.

This week we will be watching Jesus Camp. Jesus Camp is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing about a Pentecostal/charismatic summer camp for children who spend their summers learning and practicing their “prophetic gifts” and being taught that they can “take back America for Christ.” According to the distributor, it “doesn’t come with any prepackaged point of view” and tries to be “an honest and impartial depiction of one faction of the evangelical Christian community”.

This is a fantastic/terrifying film that I think all secular (and non-secular) folk should see.

Come join us in the Dogwood Room of the IMU at 8pm for our weekly Russell’s Tea Party.

As I’m sure pretty much everyone knows, this meeting is being held on Valentine’s Day. So, what better day to discuss our feelings towards things like love, marriage, children, etc. Some people see love as a magical sort of thing and the term “soulmate” gets thrown about. It’ll be interesting to see how secular folks can have healthy relationship without God/magic.

I hope to see you there.

Come join us for our weekly Movie Night in Swain East 105 at 8pm.

In keeping with our theme of “good movies marginally related to religion,” we will be watching Teeth.

This is a film about a girl who promotes abstinence-only sex-ed who is a little different down south (let’s say). The only other thing I’ll say about this movie is “vagina dentata!”

The SAIU will be hosting Greta Christina for a lecture at 5:30pm in Jordan 124.

Bio:

Greta Christina is one of the most widely- read and well- respected bloggers in the atheist blogosphere. She has been writing about atheism and skepticism for her own cleverly-named Greta Christina’s Blog since 2005, and is currently the regular atheism correspondent for the online political magazine, AlterNet. She has been writing professionally since 1989, on topics including sexuality and sex-positivity, LGBT issues, politics, culture, and whatever crosses her mind. Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, and anthologies, including Ms., Skeptical Inquirer, the Chicago Sun-Times, three volumes of Best American Erotica, and the anthologies The Philosophy of Sex, PoMoSexuals, Looking Queer, Bisexual Politics, and Everything You Know About God Is Wrong. She is currently editor of the nnual Best Erotic Comics series. She lives in San Francisco with her wife, Ingrid.

Talk summary:

Atheism and sexuality. The sexual morality of traditional religion tends to be based, not on solid ethical principles, but on a set of taboos about what kinds of sex God does and doesn’t want people to have. And while the sex-positive community offers a more thoughtful view of sexual morality, it still often frames sexuality as positive by seeing it as a spiritual experience. What are some atheist alternatives to these views? How can atheists view sexual ethics without a belief in God? And how can atheists view sexual transcendence without a belief in the supernatural?