I’ve got to say it: I never heard of Frisco, Texas before, and had no idea where it is. But it’s apparently a big city of 100,000 people out in the northeast part of the state, north of Dallas/Fort Worth, and they are putting on an atheist convention! These things are getting to be everywhere, and I think this is an excellent development. We just had an excellent event out here in a much more obscure part of the world (but where it is needed), and now Texas is popping up pockets of rationality everywhere.
Let’s see Amarillo and Midland and Corpus Christi join in the trend — a great wave of people of reason standing up and making themselves known all across the state.
Until the Great Texas Atheist Revolution, though, you’ll have to go to the North Texas Secular Student Convention. It’s got a great lineup; everyone in the region should hop into your Volvos with the gay pride bumper sticker and head to Frisco on the 14th of April.
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Damon Fowler- student activist
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David Fitzgerald- historian, author of “Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed At All”
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Hemant Mehta- author of “I Sold my Soul on eBay” and “The Friendly Atheist” blog
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Dorian Mooneyham- student LGBT activist
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David Smalley, former editor of American Atheist magazine, host of “Dogma Debate“ podcast, author of “Baptized Atheist”
As well as a debate featuring:
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Matt Dillahunty- President of the Atheist Community of Austin, co-host of “The Atheist Experience“
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JT Eberhard- High School Coordinator of the Secular Student Alliance, founder of Skepticon
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John Ferrer
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Dr. Sloan Lee — Philosophy and Logic teacher at The Cambridge School of Dallas, primary research in the philosophies of religion and science