Pennsylvania Nonbelievers » PA Nonbelievers http://www.panonbelievers.org Atheists, agnostics, nontheists, humanists and freethinkers Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:57:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Please Help! http://www.panonbelievers.org/2010/06/04/please-help/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=please-help http://www.panonbelievers.org/2010/06/04/please-help/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:12:24 +0000 Brian http://www.panonbelievers.org/?p=1793 As an organization, we’ve had several people contribute time and money to running our various events. Our participation in parade and street fair events, educational and organizational meetings, our involvement in various charity events, and our annual group parties, picnics and other fund raisers, have all been huge successes because of these contributions by our members.

However, running a growing organization sometimes takes more. Over the next few months, we will be starting up various committees to assist the board in some of the more routine, but necessary, tasks that don’t get a lot of press. Things like organizing the budget, doing the legwork to organize our events, composing our newsletter, producing our TV programs, maintaining membership and mailing lists, taking inventory and ordering our sale items, banners, tents and other equipment all require a large amount of time, and our board needs help from our membership to make these things work. If you have the time and/or ability to work in these areas, please let us know. You can approach any of our board members privately if you like, or contact us through the website here.

If you don’t have ready access to a board member, please let us know here:

http://www.panonbelievers.org/contact

Thanks, once again, to all of you who have put in your own time and money to help us with our projects we’ve done so far, and thank you to all of those who continue to make our organization what it is!

Brian Fields
Webmaster/Cumberland Valley Director
PA Nonbelievers, Inc.
http://www.panonbelievers.org

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Waiting for our Division to be called. (L-R) Matt Juba, Carl Silverman, Laurie Stephenson, Jane Kelly, Mikki Weidman, Doug Diggens, Eric Wolfe Christian kids watch another Christian float go by. Notice that all of the dead soldiers were Christian. Then again, maybe not. After all the Supreme Court says crosses aren't religious symbols. Two banners on bamboo poles. Photographer Katie (left) gets into the picture for one shot. Some of the loving glances we received. Former Mennonite Jane Kelly proudly passes the unofficial judges' curb. Looking east on Rt. 422 as we proceed into town. The Annville parade is reportedly the largest Memorial Day parade in PA, at least according to Honorary PA Nonbelievers member, Gov. Ed Rendell, who walked at the head of the parade. The dog was frantically searching for a porta-john, when suddenly... ...Ernest, Praise & Dog, and Jane, are subjected to a harangue by a Christian. We are going to meet our maker! The dog was so scared by that threat that he promptly took a big crap along the centerline of the parade route shortly after this photo was taken. One minute we are hated, the next we are cheered. Guess which group here are the Christians. Quick, snap a photo! There are ATHEISTS in Annville! The Annville and Palmyra fire departments had better relations than the Christians and the Atheists, that's for sure. It was an honor to have two veterans, Matt Juba (left) and Eric Wolfe carry our main banner. Eric wore his Disabled American Veterans hat. Notice that immediately behind PAN is a group of school kids from the Bible Release Time program at Annville-Cleona public schools. Kids in that (unfortunately legal) program leave classes once a week for an hour, to be brainwashed at a local church. But at least that group didn't heckle us---we got along fairly well. Another veteran, Doug Diggens helped carry the PA Nonbelievers organization banner, with help from Laurie Stephenson. Someone on the Parade Committee must have tipped off this group of Christians about our presence. They were ready to threaten us with eternal torture, or at least the torture of listening to their Bible babble and reading their tracts. Former Former Charismatic Minister Rev. Ernest Perce approaches the Bible bangers. Rev. Ernest Perce approaches the Bible bangers. Throughout the parade, Ernest responded to hecklers with the most appropriate Bible verses. Notice the children, amazed that atheist Ernest knew the Bible better than the Christians did. Carl Silverman (left) and Matt Juba just ignored the hecklers here. Rounding the bend in downtown Annville. Several groups of nasty Christians yelled "Go home!" or "You don't belong here"....to which we replied "We're Americans, too!" They didn't like that. But one Marine gave us a thumbs up near the reviewing stand. Another group that was obviously tipped off by either the Parade Committee or by spectators earlier in the route. Good for you, lady. Feel free. Just keep it out of government. A friendly Unitarian on an antique bike, as we approached the end of the parade route... ...but not before we encountered one more group of insecure Christians.

]]> http://www.panonbelievers.org/2010/05/31/photos-from-the-2010-memorial-day-parade-in-annville/feed/ 2 New Site Feature: Forums! http://www.panonbelievers.org/2010/05/23/new-site-feature-forums/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-site-feature-forums http://www.panonbelievers.org/2010/05/23/new-site-feature-forums/#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 00:23:24 +0000 Brian http://www.panonbelievers.org/?p=1726 Our website now has another level of interaction – Forums!

Feel free to drop by and start a discussion, or two… It’s conveniently located on the menu bar, or you can go here: PA Nonbelievers Forum.

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Jefferson Pepper and the Varmints in Heaven rockin' the stage. More of Jefferson Pepper and his band. Jefferson rockin' the mike. Baba Brinkman teaching Darwin via rap to Ken Miller. Classic! Another shot of Baba. This was shot by Sharon Hill - She noticed this downstairs - FUNNY!

]]> http://www.panonbelievers.org/2009/11/08/concert-for-darwin-some-pics/feed/ 2 Concert for Darwin http://www.panonbelievers.org/2009/10/01/concert-for-darwin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=concert-for-darwin http://www.panonbelievers.org/2009/10/01/concert-for-darwin/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:39:11 +0000 Brian http://www.panonbelievers.org/?p=864 Next month marks the 150th Anniversary of the publishing of Origin of Species, Charles Darwin’s seminal work that revolutionized the scientific world. To celebrate the anniversary, The Friends of Kitzmiller v. Dover are hosting a Concert for Darwin at 7 p.m. Saturday Nov. 7 at Harrisburg’s Midtown Scholar.
Because, as evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky famously said, “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.”

Featured at the event will be Vancouver-based rap-lit artist Baba Brinkman, whose performance of “Rap Guide to Evolution” won the coveted Scotsman Fringe First Award in Edinburgh Scotland’s prestigious Fringe Festival.

As a special treat, biologist, science author and Brown University professor Ken Miller, whose testimony as the Dover plaintiffs’ lead science expert led to some of the trial‘s most powerful moments, will be giving a talk about Darwin and his legacy and how it inspired him.

Also performing will be alt-folk singer-songwriter Jefferson Pepper, whose recent CD release American Evolution, which was inspired by the Kitzmiller trial, reached No. 9 on the Euro Americana chart.

Special guests will perform selected readings from Origin of Species.

Tickets are $15 and can be ordered on line. For more information on Concert for Darwin, or to order tickets, go to: http://www.americanfallout.com/concert_for_darwin.html
or call 717-938-4332.

HOWEVER! The event promoters have given PA Nonbelievers 60 of the available 150 tickets to sell and we will be selling them at our York and Harrisburg meetings and by mail to PAN members, and we encourage PAN members to buy their tickets from us. Those who can’t attend either meeting can contact us directly.

Contact us here: http://panonbelievers.org/contact

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