Humanist Association of Greater Philadelphia's Interests
General
Humanism, Separation of Church and State, Human Rights, Skepticism, Atheism, Agnosticism, Freethought, Politics in General, Greater Philadelphia
Movies
VIEWED AND DISCUSSED BY OUR MOVIE NIGHT: Osama, Supersize Me, The Corporation, The God Who Wasn't There, Last Best Chance, Heart of the Beholder, Hell House, The Future of Food, Why We Fight, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Inherit the Wind, An Inconvenient Truth, Iraq for Sale, Who Killed the Electric Car, Crude Impact, Jesus Camp, Extraordinary Rendition, The Root of All Evil?, A Brief History of Disbelief, Biography, Legends and Myths: Santa Claus, Judgment Day: Intelligent Design On Trial, PBS's Evolution Part 1: Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Sicko, The Four Horsemen, No End in Sight, Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains, Taxi to the Dark Side, For the Bible Tells Me So, Slacker Uprising, Religulous, American Blackout, What Would Jesus Buy?
Books
READ AND DISCUSSED BY OUR BOOK CLUB: Doubt: A History by Jennifer Hecht, On Human Nature by E.O.Wilson, The End of Faith by Sam Harris, Thomas Paine and the Promise of America by Harvey J. Kaye, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins, American Theocracy by Kevin Phillips, The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould, Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, The Continuum Concept: In Search of Happiness Lost by Jean Leidloff, Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class - And What We Can Do About It by Thom Hartmann, Moral Minds by Marc Hauser, Paltestine: Peace Not Aparteid by Jimmy Carter, The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow, Gangs of America by Ted Nace, Dark Ages America by Morris Berman, China Inc. by Ted C. Fishman, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Probable by Ted C. Fishman, The Assault on Reason by Al Gore, The World Without Us by Alan Weisman, The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics by Michael Shermer, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby, The Varieties of Scientific Experience by Carl Sagan, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Parenting Beyond Belief, Plan B: 3.0 Mobilizing to Save Civilization, The Age of American Unreason, Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief
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About me: The Humanist Association of Greater Philadelphia is a vibrant community organization based in the northern suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Our group meets four times a month for a movie night, luncheon, book club, and program meeting. In the summer we host a picnic, in February we celebrate Darwin Day, and in December we throw a HumanLight/Solstice party.
HAGP is part of a network of local freethought; we co-host our bookclub with the Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia, and co-host our movie night with the Buxmont Unitarian Fellowship. We occasionally coordinate special events with these groups and the New Jersey Humanist Network. We are also in communication with PhACT (the Philadelphia Association for Critical Thinking) and help promote each other's events.
Visit our website: www.hagp.org
Who I'd like to meet: Humanists, Skeptics, Rationalists, Atheists, Agnostics, Deists, Brights, and other types of Freethinkers, especially in and around Philadelphia.
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Love, not sleep. But people hear only what they want to, so facts alone won't wake them; inspiration is needed too.
This world's evils have a common root: Bullies, liars, thieves, & murderers — particularly those in public office — believe we're all separate, motivated only by self-interest, by greed & fear. They want us to share that belief; they use it to justify themselves, to manipulate us, to shape the world's political & economic systems, perpetuating war & poverty.
But you & I have found something better inside ourselves & our friends. It's in everyone, even tank drivers & bomber pilots, if we can just wake them; we're all one flesh & blood. Let's spread that vision, for until we do our other advances will be minor & temporary. The outcome of the ideological struggle is not yet determined, so no one can afford to be just a spectator. Join the global conversation; it empowers us all.
Question authority. Keep fighting, loving, hoping, singing. Hand in hand, we may still be able to heal the world.
