Announcement List for the Virginia Atheists & Agnostics

[John Kubinski <>]

Hey VAA,

Tonight, we'll be meeting for a discussion-debate hybrid; consider it a chance to air your views, partake in friendly exchange, and have an intellectual icebreaker of sorts. We'll be having a moderated conversation in which we address the following questions:

[As our meeting falls on 9/11, we've decided to concern our first question with it.]

(1) Was Islam a significant "cause" of 9/11?

(2) How should secular institutions replace churches as centers of community?

(3) Would it ever be worthwhile for everyone to believe in a false religion if it had universally positive effects?

We may also get to questions less concerned with religion directly, after surveying the desires of the audience, like:

- Can moral claims be true or false?

- Would it be ethical to kill a sleeping person? ("This is a debatable question?" You bet!)

- Is humanity destined for scientific utopia?

- After Darwin, is it possible to consider human behavior as driven by anything besides reproduction?

See you there at:

7:00 P.M., New Cabell 411, 9/11

Farewell,

John Kubinski

VAA President