Freedom Of, Freedom From, Freedom To
Author: Everyday-Freethought
//The guest is Phil Ferguson of Skeptic Money. Plus I talk about George Hrab’s visit to Chicago in November.
You can find the feed at Feedburner. The mp3 for the episode is here.
Everyday Freethought is a podcast where ordinary, everyday atheists, agnostics, skeptics and freethinkers can share their stories and talk about what is going in their hometowns.
The theme is GameDay by Seraphic Panopoly, via PodsafeAudio.
Some other links: Skepchicamp, and Edgar County, Illinois.
//Here is the first episode. I talk about the origins of the podcast, some parts of my life story, and my plans for the podcast.
You can find the feed at Feedburner. The mp3 for the episode is here.
Everyday Freethought is a podcast where ordinary, everyday atheists, agnostics, skeptics and freethinkers can share their stories and talk about what is going in their hometowns.
The theme is GameDay by Seraphic Panopoly, via PodsafeAudio. I also reference The Top Ten Reasons I Don’t Believe In God by Greta Christina.
//I added a link to the Chicago Coalition of Reason to the Groups page.
//I added the site for the Colorado Coalition of Reason to the Other States page.
//I was away for a while looking for a job in another part of the state. I decided not to take it, but it took a lot of my time going out there and checking out the town. I was not able to post much, but now I am back into my routine. Later I will post about my plans for the site, as well as the usual posting of scheduled events.
//I added a link to the Other States page. Iowa now has a second state-wide site: Iowa Secularists.
//Appropriate for the Fourth of July, I added a few more state-wide groups in other states to the Other States page. A few of the sites appear to be out of date.
//I found out that there is a site for Oklahoma atheists called Oklahoma Atheists. I added a link to it on the Other States page.
//I added some more groups to the Groups Page. I added groups in the Chicago Metro Area section.
//I updated the About page. The post is reproduced below:
Welcome to Illinois Freethought, a website dedicated to promoting freethought and rationalism in the state of Illinois.
If you refer to yourself (either seriously or facetiously) as an Agnostic, Atheist, Bright, Freethinker, Humanist, Infidel, Non-Theist, Rationalist, Secular or Skeptic, and you live in the state of Illinois or the St. Louis metro area, then this site is for you. The goal of Illinois Freethought is to gather information about agnostic/atheist/skeptical groups in the state of Illinois in one place.
I have been going to meetings of a couple of groups in Chicago, The City That Matters, and a few people have expressed some frustration that groups like this can be hard to find. So hopefully this site will ameliorate that issue. A few times people have come in from the suburbs for a two-hour eat and greet at a restaurant because they could not find other groups in their area.
A lot of the groups here in Illinois are on Meetup.com or Facebook. This site will provide links to these groups as well as links to their events and entries on the calendar page as well. I do not have a Facebook account, nor do I want one, so the process may not be too smooth.
I will divide up the state as follows:
This site will be accessible via the domains Illinois-Atheists.info, Illinois-Skeptics.info and Illinois-Freethought.info.