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Category: Godlessness
Posted on: July 11, 2008 2:19 PM, by PZ Myers
These campus freethought groups are growing fast, and the SSA is a national umbrella organization that advises many students — it's a great cause. They are trying to raise money to contribute towards more student support — help 'em out!
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Posted by: Bjorn Watland | July 11, 2008 2:25 PM
And, students, don't forget to milk the SSA for help in setting up your own group. That is one of the reasons they are there.
Posted by: llewelly | July 11, 2008 2:40 PM
They should kidnap some consecrated crackers and hold them hostage. A few youtubes of crazed atheists waving little dishes of salsa and avocado at helpless hosts should make those Catholics cough up the bills.
Posted by: KillerChihuahua | July 11, 2008 2:58 PM
I don't see why they cannot get their hands on some of that $40k that UCF is giving out to religious groups. Perhaps we should mail-bomb UCF with that suggestion.
Posted by: Capital Dan | July 11, 2008 3:03 PM
Can we please keep this a cracker-free zone?
Posted by: Brownian, OM | July 11, 2008 3:05 PM
No, Southern white racists are as free to post here as anyone else.
Posted by: Doctor Spurt | July 11, 2008 3:07 PM
Yeah, let's see a veritable plague of videos of mistreatment of crackers, all set to the Benny Hill theme music / Yakety Sax.
Posted by: Ames | July 11, 2008 4:45 PM
My favorite person in the world was president of Rice University's chapter of SSA, which went by the name of Secular Students of Rice... a GREAT group.
Posted by: David Utidjian | July 11, 2008 4:59 PM
I already donate $10/month automatically via PayPal. Ever since PZ first blogged about the SSA. It has been about a year now.... so about $120 in total. I will keep that donation "on" for as long as I have a regular source of income and the SSA exists to do the work they do.
-DU-
Posted by: TyBowen | July 11, 2008 6:23 PM
Please donate, its a great cause. They are the ones helping us get CU: Boulder's SSA off the ground.
Posted by: wnelson | July 11, 2008 8:16 PM
Yes, be sure to donate -- I hear they're working on a raffle to send Myers to Jerusalem, where he can urinate on the Wailing Wall. ;-)
Hey, it's just frackin' rock!
Posted by: Hemant Mehta | July 11, 2008 8:42 PM
David, thanks for your continuing donations. They really do help the SSA a lot! I hope others follow in your footsteps :)
Posted by: Kcanadensis | July 11, 2008 8:46 PM
YES, please do. My college organization is affiliated with SSA and they helped bring Dan Barker to our campus last fall. Thank you!
Posted by: Orson Zedd | July 11, 2008 8:59 PM
Thanks for your help, PZ. I'm a member of the University of Mississippi chapter. My Roommate started it. The Chancellor refuses to acknowledge its existence, so we need all the help we can get.
We did have a bit of a membership drive when Brother Micah visited in April, basically handing out fliers for the organization as he called everyone Masturbators, Whores, and in my case, a Moron. I just wanted to know if he had a non-Pasta alternative to the Theory of Gravity, I don't know what his problem is.
Anyway, if anyone in the North Mississippi area reads this, and is an atheist, we're here for you. We need all the help we can get.
Posted by: Jim1138 | July 12, 2008 5:09 AM
I just donated!
Posted by: DrmChsr0 | July 15, 2008 1:48 PM
More funding for student bodies is always a good thing.
Though sending someone to a war zone to pee on a wall isn't the smartest thing in the world. As much as I would love to see PZ Myers urinating on the Wailing Wall, it's generally not advisable to send someone to the Middle East, especially for something as trivial and frankly, very juvenile and tasteless as that. Don't want to lose a scientist like that, see...