Comment by Remy on September 12, 2008 at 11:43am

Hi, everyone. I just listened to the Infidel Guy podcast and heard about this site so I joined up. I don't have jesus jammies but I think they are very attractive. Yeah, totally hot.

Comment by Remy on September 16, 2008 at 12:59pm

Hi. Has anyone been to one of those atheist gatherings around SLC? I think there is one weekly at a coffee shop on state street, then there is one at the Sugarhouse library once a month? I'm wondering if they are cool. I suppose I could go see for myself but I'm not really a person who goes out and meets strangers. You never know what kind of freaks there are running around.

Comment by Poodles on September 19, 2008 at 11:37am

Remy,
I went to one of the ones at the Coffee Shop a while ago. It was actually a lot of fun. You just sit around and talk at those ones. I want to go back when I have the time. It is nice to share ideas with others in person sometimes.

If you google Atheists of Zion Meetup you can join their meetup page to get the information for the Thursday night meet ups.

I do know that when I was there we talked about maybe having a group go see Bill Maher's Religulous when it comes out.

Comment by Remy on September 19, 2008 at 5:50pm

Thanks for the info. Maybe I'll check out the next one. And I'm really excited to watch Bill Maher's movie. Hopefully the people he offends will make an anti-movie. I like the anti-michael moore movies. The anti-movies are always a hilarious joke.

Comment by Remy on October 24, 2008 at 11:27am

Ok, so who went to see religulous? What did you think?

We need to have some sort of discussion in this group. I need to occupy my day with something other than work.

Comment by Jon on October 25, 2008 at 3:05am

I liked it quite a bit. I wrote up a longish "review" here but basically I'd say that despite maybe being a little too long, it was good stuff.

Comment by Markii on October 25, 2008 at 1:56pm

i loved religulous. and real time with bill maher. maher for prez! (nah, he'd probably be too stoned). ;)

Comment by Poodles on October 26, 2008 at 12:54pm

I liked Religulous too. It did have some flaws, but I thought it was kind of fun.

Comment by Remy on October 28, 2008 at 2:45pm

Hey, Jon, I liked your review.

I'm with Bill Maher (anti-vaccination nutcase) and Larry Charles (funny) when it comes to how this movie was made. They painted some really broad strokes and in a lot of cases found the craziest person they could to interview.

I know some skeptics who would flip out, but I don't think that total accuracy is really required when making fun of something completely ridiculous. If one were debating a creationist at a school board meeting or trying to convince a person that vaccinating their kids is ok then it's necessary to be super accurate.

In this movie just standing back and getting a good overview of how full of shit religion is might actually be more effective than being a hyper-accurate, academic study of religion and theology. Religulous' light style might actually be more accessible and reach more people. That will be more people dismissing their religious ideas when they see their own ideas up there right next to ideas they already think are nonsense.

Just a thought.

Comment by Evolver on November 8, 2008 at 7:51am

Hey anyone near the Avenues district of SLC? My wife and I just relocated here from Southern California and we're looking to network, thanks!

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