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Atheists United is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization whose mission is to maintain a positive atheist community that fosters a supportive environment for its members.

Website: http://atheistsunited.org
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Members: 96
Latest Activity: Jul 12, 2012

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A Statement of Postive Atheism

Atheists United is a positive atheist community. As such, we believe in equal treatment and opportunity among all people, regardless of race, world view, sex or sexual preference.

Another feature of positive atheism is the absence of dogma. Its founder Gora said, “The only imperative is honesty.”

Because of this distrust for catechisms and similar “moral laws,” we tolerate members and friends who may not share the tenets of positive atheism. So long as they do not pretend to speak for Atheists United or misrepresent our belief, they are welcome.

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Comment by Hugh Kramer on February 7, 2010 at 4:54pm: On Feb. 28, "The Great Agnostic" will be paying a visit to Los Angeles in the person of actor Richard McNally. His one-man show, A Visit With Robert Green Ingersoll, will be performed at 11 a.m. as the program for the general meeting of Atheists United in Hollywood. (more here)

Comment by Hugh Kramer on January 22, 2010 at 9:49am: This Sunday, January 24, Sean Faircloth, Executive Director of the Secular Coalition for America, will be in Los Angeles to discuss how the values of our nation's founders directly connect to the values of the secular movement and how theocratically-based injustices in American law are not a historical artifact -- but rather a stark current reality that we all have a moral obligation to address. The talk is entitled "One Nation Under the Constitution" and will be given at 11 a.m. at the Center for Inquiry-Los Angeles. (more here)

Comment by Hugh Kramer on December 26, 2009 at 6:15pm: Atheists United's holiday display, which featured a gnome with the face of Charles Darwin, was vandalized overnight in Santa Monica's Pacific Park. It was the only display out of a large number (mostly church-sponsored nativity scenes, etc.) that was vandalized.

More (including before & after pictures) here.

Comment by Hugh Kramer on December 12, 2009 at 3:42pm: Today's Los Angeles Times has a great article featuring an interview with Atheist United President Bobbie Kirkhart by columnist Patt Morrison. I get a lot of pleasure out of reporting this because I'm an AU member and I'm lucky enough to get to see (and hear) this special lady at every meeting.

More here.

Comment by Hugh Kramer on October 14, 2009 at 1:17pm: Susan Sackett, author of the controversial tell-all, Inside Trek: My Secret Life with Star Trek Creator Gene Roddenberry and four other Star Trek books will be giving a talk entitled Atheism in Star Trek at the general meeting of Atheists United, a Los Angeles-based freethought group. It will take place Sunday, Oct. 25th at 11 a.m. at the Center for Inquiry West, in Hollywood. The event is free and open to the general public.
More here.

Comment by Tyler Evans on August 27, 2009 at 6:08pm: Hello all, can someone show me the location of these meetings, thank you.

Comment by qıƃ ɟ ǝıɔɐɹʇ on August 23, 2009 at 1:36pm: I joined AU upon first moving to California almost 20 years ago. I've never been to a meeting, though, because I'm too far away.

Comment by Greywolf on August 23, 2009 at 11:50am: Getting atheists to work together in an organized manner is no longer like "herding cats" in the manner it once was, thank goodness. We need to lean on each other because we have no one else, in large measure, besides the humanist groups that give a flying hoot about us.

You can discount the politicians altogether, sad to say.

Glad to be aboard.

Comment by Janine Alderete on August 8, 2009 at 11:06pm: I tried joining but the payment would not go through, said i had invalid state, which unless arnold did something i dont know about, is wrong. Anyhow, I am going to the orientation tomorrow so will pay it there.