Agnostic and Atheist Student Association

Meetings

6:10pm to 7:00pm, Thursdays in Olson Hall 118

E-mail List

E-mail Arash with "AGASA" as the subject and either "add" or "remove" in the email <askhos AT ucdavis DOT edu>

Other Internet Resources

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AGASA Message Board: http://agasa.proboards67.com/index.cgi

Mailing Address

AGASA / SPAC. box #96 / UC-Davis / Davis, CA 95616

Visit us:
Office: 1237 Social Science and Humanities
Street: Corner of Third Street and A Street
City: Davis, CA

The Agnostic and Atheist Student Association, or AGASA is a campus organization with the purpose of uniting the many agnostics and atheists on campus and providing an opportunity to socialize with the likeminded, while questioning religious and theistic beliefs. The club is predominantly made up of people who identify as materialists/naturalists/physicalists (people who do not believe in any form of the supernatural) and non-theists who believe in some things that are supernatural. However, everyone is welcome to the general meetings and to partake in the discussions.

AGASA was formed in response to what was perceived as a very aggressive and deceptive marketing on the part of some of the Christian organizations on campus. The group was founded by three people, all of whom have now moved out of Davis and on to other things. Founder, Bryce Kuklok class of 2004, designed the official logo of AGASA to be a Jesus fish on a plate ready to be eaten. His reasoning in starting the organization was that there were no fewer than a dozen religious organizations present on what was supposed to be a secular public campus, yet there was no outlet for the godless, who were bombarded on a daily basis by the rhetoric and propaganda of faith based groups. The original intended name of AGASA was Aggie Agnostics, but in a move inconsistent with the reality of other student groups present on campus, Bryce was barred from using the term "Aggie".

The group's former president was Kris Fricke, who aspired to restart the club several times during the 2002-2003 school year. In the mid-winter quarter of 2005, Kris held a meeting and people actually showed up and were interested in getting AGASA going again! After officer elections and official affiliation with larger Agnostic and Atheist groups (such as Secular Student Alliance and Atheists and Other Freethinkers), the new board is excited to start having fun and meeting new agnostics and atheists hidden in the Davis community.

Ask an Atheist: an AgASA panel
Date:Thursday, May 15, 2008
Time: 6:10pm - 8:00pm
Location: Haring Hall 1227
People of all faiths invited!!

We will have a panel of atheists who will field questions from the crowd, and will discuss issues that are significant to both peoples of faith, agnostics, and atheists alike.
We are trying to move to a bigger room: any changes will be sent out and repeated, ad nauseam, so that that specific information is disseminated properly.

The panelists are:
Arash Khosrowshahi
Joshua Schraiber
Catalina Chao
Micah Chavin
Shiva Kasravi

Meetings-
Meetings this quarter are from 6:10pm to 7:00pm, Thursdays in Olson Hall118. We have the room reserved until 9:00pm, though, so we can continue our discussions after 7:00pm for those of you who like to stick around, and for those of you who cannot make the main time

Movie Project
We've launched our movie project which aims to clear up misconceptions surrounding atheism, so if you want to help out let us know!

Jessica's radio interview with Newdow
On December 7th, Jessica Rockwell, our Social Chair Fall quarter 2005, interviewed Michael Newdow, who is trying to take "under God' out of the pledge and "in God we trust" off of our currency. If you missed the live show, please listen to it at:

http://kdvs.org/shows/view/show_id/110

Support of Pete Stark-
Pete Stark, Congressman of the 13th Congressional District of California, has become the first legislator in U.S. history to openly come out as a non-theist. To participate in a draft letter for his support, click on the following link: http://www.secular.org/activism/thank_stark_070312.html

To visit Stark's website and contact him directly, visit http://www.house.gov/stark/contact.

National Day of Prayer/Gift of Life Day-

May 3rd is National Day of Prayer. AGASA encourages everyone who believes in secularism to take action this day. Atheists will counter ‘National Day of Prayer' with blood donations. Lifesaving action, not passive prayer, is the message. What do you do on May 3, 2008, the “National Day of Prayer,” if you are an atheist, do not believe in prayer and are opposed to the observance of a prayer day being imposed on all American citizens?

While believers are praying on May 3rd, groups of atheists will go to blood banks in scores of U.S. locales to donate their blood and sign up for organ donation programs. It is a nationwide action which we hope will point out that there are alternatives to silently beseeching a deity to perform miracles.

We want to make a public statement about how nonreligious people can observe the so-called National Day of Prayer, which we have renamed "Gift of Life Day."

Mathew, George, Liza, Chad, and Jessica at the Atheists and Other Freethinkers meeting in Sacramento. AGASA Potluck 5/28/05. Justin finds God in San Francisco

Kris & Michael Newdow. Atheist Convention Easter weekend 2004. Alannah & Penn Jillet. Atheist Convention Easter weekend 2004. Jessica & Richard Dawkins. Atheist Convention Easter weekend 2004.

Questions, Comments, Concerns, or Queries

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2007-11-25 19:07:14   I think it is worth nothing that the original Pledge of Allegiance did not contain the phrase "under God." See, e.g., The Pledge of Allegiance - A Short History. I make this comment because of the above rally, which says we need to "remove" the phrase "under God" from the Pledge. I think it would be more accurate to say that some would like to see the U.S. restore the pledge to its original, pre-Communist-paranoia, separation-of church-and-state version. —CovertProfessor

2008-01-18 03:40:51   meetings are during my lecture :( —fredchen

2008-01-21 13:28:31   How about working on a list of non-believers who have contributed to the world in the areas of helping the poor, caring for the sick, establishing hospitals, schools, orphanages, etc. or have made contributions to the creative arts, such as painting, sculpture, literature, musice, etc. Certainly there are some literary lions who have been athiests, how about some others? —christinecipperly

2008-03-30 17:37:31   Where were you guys when I was an undergrad? Oh how I needed something like this. I'm overjoyed that godless, secular humanists, such as myself, have something for them. —CurlyGirl26

2008-04-16 17:10:06   My hero, Ayn Rand was an atheist. She's a famous author and proponent of objectivism. —CurlyGirl26