We are meeting December 6 at 5 pm for our regular monthly get together.
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Dec 7th Update:
Yesterday’s meeting was amazingly successful! Thanks to the 22 people who showed up to make it interesting, lively and fun.
We ran the gamut from christian apologist to deists to a bunch of godless athesists. Rachel brought tracts to hand out as well as great arguments for why we should believe in god. Her arguments were classic but I think we held our own and had fun refuting her reasoning.
Godless Heathens Converted: 0 (although Joe raised his hand when she asked if anyone accepted her arguments and wanted to convert, but I think he was just being supportive since he was pretending to be on her side and help her out. Joe you can clarify if you were really converted!)
At any rate, it was fun. Afterwards, we hung out and talked about anything and everything (which atheists can do. We don’t always talk about religion!) It was hard to leave because it was such a fun night.
Thank you so much for opening your home to us, Tim. That made the night so much more successful and comfortable. 
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The theme of this meeting is The Great Conversion!
Rachel (the president of the Brights) is going to use her guile, wit and best emotional appeals to try to convert us to christianity! (She’s a nonbeliever. This is all done in jest, but also to help us practice our logical discussion skills)
With our best atheist and skeptical logic we will defend our lack of belief and counter her arguments.
Bring along any logical fallacy books you might have, in case you want to reference them.
Rachel does not have to follow any rules. She is allowed to use any method (besides physical torture) to try to convert us.
We, on the other hand, will be polite and friendly, and use our best logic, reason and scientific research to defeat her conversion attempts.
This should be great fun for everyone!
After the event, I’ll report back here with how things went and how many atheists were re-converted. Let’s make a strong, positive showing, fellow heathens!
Oh, if you are on the fence, either as an agnostic or in some other manner, feel free to come along and support Rachel with your arguments. All are welcome, even if you just want to watch us discuss faith vs reason.
We met at Tim’s House (thanks Tim!)
Ok, we’re not really international, but The Skeptic’s Testament in Australia mentioned us on Episode 14 on their podcast! I had a wonderful email exchange with Nicholas Bruzzese from The Skeptic’s Testament and he expressed an interest in our Atheist Hotline. He was kind enough to mention it in Episode 14. Listen at the very end for West Virginia’s state song, Country Roads. 
