Comments on: Can an Atheist Unity Convention Happen?

This is just Margaret's latest attempt to be at the top. She didn't last at AAI so she thinks this will top that. Count her out and she'll fight it tooth and nail.

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It's happening in Australia :) PZ and Richard Dawkins and a host of Aussie Athiests are going to be there. http://www.atheistconvention.org.au/ Richard Dawkins talks about how powerful athiests c...

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>Not enough groups are willing to do this, though. They say it’s tradition to host their yearly convention, or it’s a moneymaker for them so they can’t give it up, and then the idea just di...

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As mentioned in the article, conventions are a big moneymaker for non-profit organizations. Simply put, some atheist organizations would seize to exist without this income. People don't join orga...

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really hope that a great deal of the usual Americentrism can be avoided in such an endeavour. I’d love to see groups involved from across North America (Canada isn’t another state, you know!)...

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Why not have the groups agree to go ahead and hold their own annual convention, but just hold it at the same place and at the same time? They could coordinate on space, share registrations, etc. ...

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I support the idea, even though it would be financially impossible for me to attend. (Unless it were held in Hawaii.) I would be there "in spirit". (If you'll pardon the expression.) I believe we...

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Hemant, it would force me to support two groups I cannot. I also cannot support anything as stuckup as the notions of "brights". I'm sorry but I cannot support this.

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2010/01/05/can-an-atheist-unity-conventio-happen/#comment-418717

Creepy. Do we all march in lock step to the “brights” too? Chant the Secular Humanists mantra and agree to their fucking retarded commandments to live by or we aren’t real athei...

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Creepy. Do we all march in lock step to the "brights" too? Chant the Secular Humanists mantra and agree to their fucking retarded commandments to live by or we aren't real atheists/freethinkers? ...

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2010/01/05/can-an-atheist-unity-conventio-happen/#comment-418707

For those groups who absolutely must have their own annual convention, why not consider "co-located" conferences? Some technology conferences do this, where they choose to have two big conference...

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They say it’s tradition to host their yearly convention, or it’s a moneymaker for them so they can’t give it up

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2010/01/05/can-an-atheist-unity-conventio-happen/#comment-418643

This needs to happen!!

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2010/01/05/can-an-atheist-unity-conventio-happen/#comment-418617

JD, by going to conventions like this, or even on the local level, you can make connections you wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to make. This, on a whole, is a completely positive thing.

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2010/01/05/can-an-atheist-unity-conventio-happen/#comment-418597

I don't have anything against it, but I'm lost as to why there are atheist conventions, I need some clues. What do people look for in a convention that's about gathering people that "don't believ...

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I agree that it should be held in D.C. If you want to challenge the notion that the USA is a "Christian nation," that's the best location to make your stand. Fill as much of the mall as you can, ...

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"Other question: Where do we Canadians fit in? Sounds so far like a USA event. Guess we should just throw our own party…." That sounds great. We could have it here at my place. There is 55 acre...

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I think it would work, as long as you don't expect us to all show up at the same time.

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I'd make an effort to attend. I understand the groups' financial concerns, but there could be all kinds of benefits. Groups could have their own cocktail hours or lectures, and attendees would be...

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Slight complication: many groups use their convention to also hold their AGM. Not that this couldn't be worked in somehow, ie. set aside a block of time and block of conference rooms within the l...

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I am pretty good friends with Margaret. I posted my thoughts on DangerousTalk.net. -Staks

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Like a fleck of calamari from his beard, dropped Washington DC as the location, which in turn, got everyone on the comments thread pumped, because they live in DC, or near it. Then after so many ...

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Washington D.C. makes more since than New York. It is our Nation's capitol, where the true decision makers make thier office. It only makes since to have it in Washington D.C. m/

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2010/01/05/can-an-atheist-unity-conventio-happen/#comment-418523

Count me in as well. It's a superior idea!

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2010/01/05/can-an-atheist-unity-conventio-happen/#comment-418522

Just to be clear, Washington, D.C. is simply where the meeting is happening this weekend. As for a potential conference location? That has yet to be decided.

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