Introducing the Northern Prairie Secular Society
Well, we’ve had our first official meeting of the Northern Prairie Secular Society and it went well. No one died, and I feel that’s always a good start (The secret to feeling successful is to set the bar really low.) In addition, we picked a name and set some guidelines. Combine that with the party we had last night and it was a great set of events and a good start for North Dakota Atheism. All in all, I happy with the progress we’ve made. My wife is quite pleased because the name she created and voted for won. Now she’ll be impossible to live with. Obvious proof that there is a God and that he hates me. Sigh!
The party was great too. Good beer. Good food. What more could an atheist ask for.
We’ve also a bare bones website right here started by yours truly. Not much there now, but please stop by and wish us all luck. We’ll need it. It takes some time and effort to create a group like this, and presently, I feel we are groping our way into the future blind as cave fish. But then again, aren’t we always.
Congratulations! Here’s to the continued success of the Northern Prairie Secular Society! (Good name, too–tell your wife I said so
) Wishing I could come and hang out with you all…:-((
Finally, when I became 18, I could take distance from the family circumstances that taught me the Protestant principles against my will. However, a few years later I married a conservative Catholic girl, and since some 50 years now, I manage to live peacefully as the only outsider in that doctrinal ambience, in a kind of mutual pity. They regret my lack of faith, and I am sorry that they not only reduce the greatness of the universe to that kindish (not even magic) Tale of a Lego Creation, but also deny the fascination of evolution.
Do you find it weird that I don’t know if I am to be called an atheist or an agnostic? But who cares – what’s in a name…isn’t it?
Last but certainly not least, congratulations on your new Society. Hopefully, your wife will soon turn out to have been too limited in her choice. That will happen when you are forced to change ´Northwestern’ into …, -whatever, at any rate, a much wider area.
The best of luck!
Federico
KK! After posting my reaction above, I browsed through your homepage and found a chapter called “The Bible in Lego”, and then I realized I had used the name Lego Creation.
I apologize, no plagiary intended!
Federico