Our Kindred spirits
A diverse community of freethinkers emphasizes discussion, inquiry, and exploration of various groups and ideas.
A Collection of Diverse Freethought Communities and Resources
The world of freethought: a deep, vast commonwealth, multifarious, diverse and prismed as a snowflake. You won't find a lot of agreement here. But why should you? Freethinkers are a heckling, independent lot. What you will find is discussion, challenge, opinion, inquiry and rich food to fatten your thought. In brief, this is a place to learn more, to explore other groups like AOF, and some very unlike. A place to challenge yourself, to grow your horizons. It may seem a lot. But do not worry, you have the rest of your life to do your homework. You’ve barely begun.
Sister Groups within the Sacramento Community of Reason
- Reason Center, a home and venue for all of us
- HAGSA, the Humanist Association of the Greater Sacramento Area (in abeyance)
- SacFAN, Sacramento Freethinkers, Atheists & Nonbelievers
- Black Humanists & Nonbelievers of Sacramento (BHNBS)
- Sacramento ThinkAtheist (see its parent group under Family Resources below)
- Sunday Assembly Sacramento, a humanist alternative to church
- Recovery from Religion (RfR), A meetup group for those escaping dogma
- Compassionate Humanists, in Roseville
- Stockton Area Atheists & Freethinkers
- Central Valley Alliance of Atheists & Skeptics (CVAAS), with its Meetup Page
- AgASA, the Atheists and Agnostic Student Association of UC Davis (and its Wikipage)
- CSUS Secular Student Alliance
- Sacramento City College Secular Student Alliance, formerly the Sac City College Freethinkers
- SAS, the Sacramento Area Skeptics
- Americans United Sacramento
- FACTS, aka the First Atheist Church of True Science
- Greater Sacramento FFRF Chapter - Please email "sacffrf (at) gmail (dot) com" for info
(click to FFRF to learn more about the national organization) - The Skeptics Dictionary, a project of the late Robert Todd Carroll
- Teaching About Religion (local educational resource)
General Resources and Information
- Atheists Websites Directory. You think this is a big list? Meh.
- Atheist Girl, another directory
- Atheism Webrings, a collection of collections of freethought websites (will keep you busy)
- The Atheist Research Collaborative, aka Center for Atheist Research
- The Secular Web
- Truth Saves
- The Happy Heretic
- The Black Sun Journal, another ex-minister speaking out
- The English Atheist (the Religion Page, archived)
- The Rational Responders
- The Skeptics' Bible is a useful reference!
- The Skeptics' Quran
- Bible Trash (offline, archived)
- Opposing Views (Religion)
- HolySmoke and its Archive
- The Skeptic Tank
- The Set Free website
- Atheist Empire strikes back (from Liverpool)
- The Infidels, aka the Secular Web, aka the Internet Infidels
- Positive Atheism (archived)
- Nobeliefs
- IronChariots, a huge wiki of apologetics & contra-apologetics
- Undo Jesus is about as in-your-face as they get
- Jim Lippard's Atheism & Christianity page
- The Richard C. Carrier Page
- Two blogs by Paul Storey: Natural View and Atheist Life
- Jesus Never Existed? loves controversy
- The Event Horizon reader (archive)
- The Skeptical Review archive, by J. Farrell Till, a very-ex minister
- Biblical Errancy by Dennis McKinsey, all 192 issues, huge file, be patient. Happy reading!
- BibleViz, a visual interactive chart of Bible problems. Whoa. I mean, whoa.
- The Freethought Debater
- The Evil Bible, all the scuttlebutt
- The Orbit: Atheism, Activism and Culture
- Skepchick, women on science, skepticism, and pseudoscience
- Edward T. Babinski's Religion Blog
- Valerie Tarico
- The Blaghag Blog
- Secular Voices
- The Friendly Atheist
- An American Atheist
- Atheist in America, aka "FlameWarrior"
- Rosa Rubicondior, a blog of religion, science & politics by an atheist-humanist
- The Secular Right, a blog of conservative freethought
- Why won't God heal amputees?
- The God Contention, with religious & secular answers to the Big Questions
- The Savage Truth by the Right Rev. James Huber (he spells it 'Huger' sometimes)
- Teaching About Religion, a national educational resource
- The Secular Directory, a directory of humanist/freethought/skeptic groups & events everywhere
- The Freethinker's Directory (similar resource, in .pdf format, click here for other formats!)
- The Godless Geeks of Silicon Valley
- Secular Activism, online classes, training & webinars for the secular mind
- Atheism UK
- Defaithed
- Digital Freethought
- The Pissy Bishop is dedicated to freethought expression
- No Honor in Gods
- Anonymous vs Scientology - Why they protest
- Planet Atheism - Aggregated atheist blogs
- Patheos Atheist, the Atheist Voice in a conversation of faith
- The Critical Thinker Academy
- The Religious Right in California
(a 1992 chart from Project Tocsin, a bit outdated, still fascinating) - Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, "FSM" sightings the world over!
- United Church of Bacon: Hail Bacon, Full of grease, the Lard is with thee
- The Wittenburg Door, a genuinely likable Christian site (they do exist)
- Sojourners, another!
De-conversion support and testimonials
- Leaving ChristianityLosing My Religion
- The Ex-Christian Network and New ExChristian Network, useful forums
- Recovering From Religion
- Ex-Minister, for clergy who walked away
- The Clergy Project, another resource for doubting clergy
- Fundamentalism Exposed
- Recovery From Mormonism
- Quit Mormon, legal assitance for ex-Mormons
- Jehovah's Witnesses Facts, for recovering JWs
- Free Minds, for 'JW' Escapees
- Apostates of Islam (please check your jihads at the door)
- Former Muslims United
- Ex-Muslims of North America
- Ebon Musings
- Questioning
- Fundamentalist Logic
- Not My God
- God is Imaginary
- Deconversion Blog
Freethought-related gifts & merchandise
- The EvolveFish Company (stickers, buttons, lapel pins)
- The Freethought Store (on Amazon.com)
- The Affable Atheist Store
- Cafe Press Freethought Gifts
- Brainburst Designs
- The Bank of Wisdom (freethought CDs, posters & busts - no not that kind)
- Internet Infidels Products
- Arrogant Atheist T-shirts
- Atheist Bliss (Photos & Portraits)
Major Secular events in the Sacramento area
- California Freethought Day - a day in October
- Sacramento Darwin Day - a day in mid-February
- Human Light - a day in late December (for the Facebook page, click here)
- National Day of Reason - Each year, the 1st Thursday in May
Family Resources, Social Networks, and Building a Community
- Camp Quest
- Scouting for All
- Atheist Parents
- Atheist Nexus
- Parenting Beyond Belief
- Grief Beyond Belief, faith-free grief support
- Kids Without God
- After School Satan, bringing the Dark Lord to our public schools
- Atheist Zone (with its Sacramento-area branch!)
- Atheist Social Network
- Freethinker Match, a dating service
- Agnostic.com, also a dating service
- Secular Organizations for Sobriety, a secular alternative to Alcoholics onymous
- Rational Recovery, another alternative
- LifeRing, yet another
- The Sober Atheist
- The Atheist Census - Stand up, be counted!
National & International organizations
- FFRF, the Freedom From Religion Foundation
- American Atheists, the group that began all the hoopla
- The Brights
- United Coalition of Reason
- American Humanist Association
- The Secular Coalition for America
- CSH, the Council for Secular Humanism
- Atheist Alliance International
- The Skeptical Inquirer
- The Satanic Temple - Really, just freethinkers in black robes
- The Rationality Unleashed Project
- The Secular Global Institute
- Secular Student Alliance
- Atheists for Human Rights
- Atheist Republic
- National Atheist Party + its Facebook Page. AKA, Secular America. Yes, there's a National Atheist Party, jump back!
- International Humanist and Ethical Union
- The Humanist
- IHS, the Institute for Humanist Studies
- Humanist Life
- Openly Secular, seeking an end to discrimination against secularists
- The First Amendment Center
- Truth Seeker Publishing, the oldest freethought journal in the West
- The Freethinker (from the Brits)
- Project Reason
- Canadian Association for Science and Reason
- The Military Religious Freedom Foundation
- Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers, atheists in foxholes do exist!
- The Original Motto Project, getting America back to “E Pluibus Unum”
- No More "In God We Trust", because God on money is just wrong
- We Are Atheism
- Progressive Atheists in Australia
- Skeptical Inquirer (formerly CSICOP, Committiee for Skeptical Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal)
- The Skeptic Society
- Independent Investigations Group, investigating paranormal claims from a scientific pov, because somebody has to
- LogiCal-LA, a place for critical thinkers to meet & schmooze
- Americans United for Separation of Church and State
- The Institute for Church-State Studies
- Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Science and Evolution
- NCSE, the National Center for Science Education
- Talk Origins, an excellent resource, especially these pages:
- The Case for Common Descent (29+ Lines of Evidence)
- Index to Creationist Claims (with replies)
- Talk Reason
- The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
- Answers in Science
- Evolution Evidence
- Why Evolution is True
- Pharyngula, the PZ Meyers Science Blog
- Ed Babinski's Creation & Evolution Blog
- Dave Matson and Dave Matson (Blog)
- The Epic Idiot (archived)
- Bible and Science (or, the Institute for Biblical & Scientific Studies)
- Earth and Life - One of the neatest science posters ever, courtesy The Brights
- The Geological Time Spiral, another great poster
- The Radial Tree of Life (Hillis Diagram), another!
History
- This Day in Church History, a Christian site with a sense of humor (archived)
- History of Religion and the Geography of War, splendid animation
- The (Real) Christian Heritage (archived, original site is offline)
- Christian Atrocities (archived)
- The Bible - Who Wrote it, Compiled it, Edited it (by the Staff of The Straight Dope, an epic in five parts)
- Jesusquest (archived) - Who was this Jesus, anyway?
- Things They Don't Tell You ..." (also archived)
Reference and Research
- Religion Facts
- The Religious Tolerance website
- Field Guide to Religions
- Adherents.com, for statistics on religion
- The Sacred Texts archive
- Epiphenom, the Science of Religion and Nonbelief
- The Godchecker - More gods than you can shake a stick at
- Meta-religion - Still not sure what this is ...
Recommended secular charities
- The SHARE charity
- Foundation Beyond Belief
- Humanist Charities
- Sacramento Blood Source
Schedule a donation now. When you do, please use the AOF Blood Source ID# 4857
Not enough? Then visit the Atheism United Huge List of Atheist/Agnostic/Skeptic/Humanist Websites.