Bruin Atheists

This is almost exactly what I experienced when running BA. Perhaps we can learn from our mistakes?

Skeptic's Play: Atheist and student groups are such clusterf**ks http://skepticsplay.blogspot.com/2014/04/atheist-and-student-groups-are-such.html

tomorrow is FREE admission day @ 20 so cal museums. check it out!
more info: http://www.museumsla.org/news.asp

*THE MORE U KNOW* :D

MuseumsLA.org: News In a joint effort to present the arts and culture to the diverse and myriad communities in Southern California, SoCal Museums (previously the Museum Marketing Roundtable) announces the ninth annual “Museums Free-For-All” Saturday, January 25, 2014. The museums—presenting art, cultural heritage, natu...

A few weeks ago, we discussed how atheists and agnostics could empathize with those coping with loss. Here is a piece that is one of my personal and touching favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYzn8wxs9sI

He Was a Friend of Mine Upload mp3s @ http://www.mp32tube.com

tomorrow is national ask an atheist day :D find us on bruin walk and come support! (free candy~)

also, i'll be part of ucla ally week's "faith and sexuality panel" @ 8:30pm in the sproul lecture room.

-berenice

Below is the discussion of an informal experiment carried out by a company that sells atheist-branded shoes and accessories. Listen to the interesting result they found:

A warm hello from the ATHEIST Shoes people in Berlin!

We're excited today to finally be able to share with you the results of our recent experiment into shipping quality by the US Postal Service.

Unfortunately, it makes for grim reading, as our study has clearly evidences discrimination, on the part of USPS workers, against atheism (or, more precisely, against atheist-branded packages).

We've made a pretty infographic to summarise the research, and there's a short topline below. Next step is for us to share the findings with USPS... can't wait to hear their thoughts!

Despite the findings, we would encourage our godless American friends to order shoes without trepidation, as we no longer use atheist-branded packing tape on US shipments. So all shoes should arrive in good time & without obstacle!

Thanks for your time!
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The ATHEIST team
Our US Postal Experiment!

After some folk in the USA expressed fears about their ATHEIST SHOES arriving in "ATHEIST" themed packaging, and after 1 or 2 parcels mysteriously disappeared, we got to wondering whether overtly atheist-branded packages might be treated differently by postal workers, particularly in more bible-thumping parts of the world.

Well, we really hoped that wouldn't be the case but we wanted to find out...

So we shipped 178 envelopes to 49 states in the USA, half heavily branded with "ATHEIST" packing tape, the other completely innocuous looking. Each recipient was sent one of each and fedback to us how quickly each arrived and in what condition.

Results showed that ATHEIST-branded packages were 10 times more likely to go missing and, when they did arrive, took on average took 3 days longer to do so that non-branded packages. Having controlled for the study in Europe, and also controlling for factors like geography, the only possible explanation is discrimination in handling of packages by the US Postal Service.

Sad news, but hopefully some good will come from our study. More news, as we have it, at www.facebook.com/atheistshoes

Atheist Shoes Handmade in Europe from the finest materials & designed to a Bauhaus aesthetic, ATHEIST are the most

meeting tonight at 6pm in Humanities A60 :D

& snacks!

A Humanist Statement on the Connecticut School Tragedy Humanists are joining others everywhere as we mourn the deeply tragic violence at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut, where, according to recent reports, 28 people were murdered—20 of them children. Our thoughts go out to the victims and the families, and the humanist community will...

http://news.yahoo.com/atheists-around-world-suffer-persecution-discrimination-report-000945958.html

BA meeting tonight at 6pm in Rolfe 3120

yayayay!

Excellent club meeting you guys - we had some very interesting discussions.

We're having our weekly meeting tonight! Come if you can. We'll be meeting at 6pm in Rolfe 3120.

http://news.yahoo.com/report-us-protestants-lose-majority-status-040220128.html

Report: US Protestants lose majority status For the first time in its history, the United States does not have a Protestant majority, according to a new study. One reason: The number of Americans with no religious affiliation is on the rise.