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{{r|Herb Silverman}} President]. Silverman became [[South Carolina]]'s most famous atheist activist in 1990 when he challenged the state's religious test for public office by entering its gubernatorial race. He is the Coalition's leading founder. | {{r|Herb Silverman}} President]. Silverman became [[South Carolina (U.S. state)|South Carolina]]'s most famous atheist activist in 1990 when he challenged the state's religious test for public office by entering its gubernatorial race. He is the Coalition's leading founder. | ||
{{r|Bobbie Kirkhart}} Vice President, Organizations; past president of the [[Atheist Alliance International]] (a Coalition founding member) and serves on the board of Camp Quest. | {{r|Bobbie Kirkhart}} Vice President, Organizations; past president of the [[Atheist Alliance International]] (a Coalition founding member) and serves on the board of Camp Quest. | ||
{{r|Mary Ellen Sikes}} Vice President, Technology; owner of a Web services company, board secretary to the Secular Student Alliance, and a past associate director and Web analyst with the [[Institute for Humanist Studies]], both Coalition founding members. | {{r|Mary Ellen Sikes}} Vice President, Technology; owner of a Web services company, board secretary to the Secular Student Alliance, and a past associate director and Web analyst with the [[Institute for Humanist Studies]], both Coalition founding members. | ||
Latest revision as of 10:08, 6 August 2023
Parent topics
- Atheism [r]: Absence of belief in any god or other supernatural beings. [e]
- Agnosticism [r]: The position that is not possible to have knowledge of God. [e]
- Humanism [r]: A group of ethical theories that place the human being at the center of our moral concern. Also, an intellectual trend towards such ethical theories that occurred in the Western Renaissance and Reformation. [e]
- Secularism [r]: The idea that government should exist separately from religion. [e]
- Separation of church and state [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
Member organizations
- American Atheists [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American Ethical Union [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American Humanist Association [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Atheist Alliance International [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Camp Quest [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Council for Secular Humanism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Institute for Humanist Studies [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Secular Student Alliance [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Society for Humanistic Judaism [r]: Add brief definition or description
Board of directors
- Herb Silverman [r]: Add brief definition or description President]. Silverman became South Carolina's most famous atheist activist in 1990 when he challenged the state's religious test for public office by entering its gubernatorial race. He is the Coalition's leading founder.
- Bobbie Kirkhart [r]: Add brief definition or description Vice President, Organizations; past president of the Atheist Alliance International (a Coalition founding member) and serves on the board of Camp Quest.
- Mary Ellen Sikes [r]: Add brief definition or description Vice President, Technology; owner of a Web services company, board secretary to the Secular Student Alliance, and a past associate director and Web analyst with the Institute for Humanist Studies, both Coalition founding members.
- August E. Brunsman IV [r]: Add brief definition or description Secretary; executive director of the Secular Student Alliance, a Coalition founding member.
- Ron Solomon [r]: Add brief definition or description Treasurer; }ast president of the American Ethical Union (AEU) and currently serves as AEU treaurer.
Advisory board
- Woody Kaplan [r]: Add brief definition or description Chair
- Robert Boston [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Richard Dawkins [r]: British ethologist, evolutionary biologist; writer and broadcaster on science and atheism (born 1941). [e]
- Daniel Dennett [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bruce Flamm [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sam Harris [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Christopher Hitchens [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Susan Jacoby [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Wendy Kaminer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Michael Newdow [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Massimo Pigliucci [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Steven Pinker [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Salman Rushdie [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ellery Schempp [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Todd Stiefel [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Julia Sweeney [r]: Add brief definition or description
Endorsing organizations
- Anti-Discrimination Support Network [r]: Add brief definition or description a committee of the Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia which receives, evaluates, and responds to reports of negative stereotyping of the Atheist/Humanist community
- Arizona (U.S. state) Coalition of Reason [r]: Add brief definition or description (ArizonaCoR), a group of like-minded member organizations from throughout Arizona that share a worldview grounded in reason over superstition, and scientific truth over revealed truth
- Association of Humanistic Rabbis [r]: Add brief definition or description committed to the values and teachings of Humanistic Judaism, a human-centered approach to Jewish life and culture
- Atheist Nexus [r]: Add brief definition or description, a community for Atheists, Agnostics, Brights, Freethinkers, Humanists & Skeptics.
- Brights Action SCA [r]: Add brief definition or description a special initiative group (SIG) of The Brights' Net, promoting the full and equitable civic participation of persons whose worldview is naturalistic (free of supernatural and mystical elements)
- Center for Atheism [r]: Add brief definition or description established by New York City Atheists as a separate and independent national organization to propose, develop and be a catalyst for new national activities supporting the objectives of atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers, skeptics, secularists and separation-of-church/state advocates
- Center for Naturalism [r]: Add brief definition or description devoted to increasing public awareness of naturalism and its implications for social and personal well-being
- Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations [r]: Add brief definition or description a coalition of independent organizations whose unity of purpose is a secular expression of Jewish heritage
- EARTHWARD [r]: Add brief definition or description (Earth's Atheist Resistance To Holy Wars and Religious Devastation), an atheist-run charity for helping victims of religiously motivated violence
- Freethought Action [r]: Add brief definition or description using traditional marketing and the internet to encourage secular Americans to speak up
- GALAH [r]: Add brief definition or description (Gay And Lesbian Atheists and Humanists), an educational and activist community for gay, lesbian, transgender, and bisexual freethinkers
- Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard [r]: Add brief definition or description for the community of Humanists, agnostics, atheists, and the non-religious at Harvard and beyond
- Humanist Institute [r]: Add brief definition or description a leadership training program created by the North American Committee for Humanism
- Humanist Society [r]: Add brief definition or description an adjunct of the American Humanist Association, which certifies qualified members to serve as Humanist celebrants
- Humanists of Florida [r]: Add brief definition or description an association of Florida individuals and groups that affirm the Humanist worldview
- TheInfidels.org [r]: Add brief definition or description a home on the Internet for positive Humanists, Atheists, Agnostics, Freethinkers, and others of like mind
- Internet Infidels [r]: Add brief definition or description creators of the Secular Web, the Internet's largest and most comprehensive freethought library
- Mission of Reason [r]: Add brief definition or description promoting the use of reason in personal, societal, and global decision-making
- OABITAR [r]: Add brief definition or description (Objectivity, Accuracy, and Balance In Teaching About Religion), fostering curricular fairness for freethought within public education
- Path of Reason [r]: Add brief definition or description website about belief, religion, philosophy, and life in general
- Rational Response Squad [r]: Add brief definition or description "rationally responding to religion one theist at a time"
- Secular Nations [r]: Add brief definition or description an international association for promotion of freedom of speech and the separation of religion from state and media
- South Carolina Progressive Network [r]: Add brief definition or description a multi-issue, multicultural, nonprofit venture created to strengthen progressive alliances, to promote voter education and participation, and to support grassroots groups and projects across the state of South Carolina
- Unitarian Universalist Infidels [r]: Add brief definition or description who define and assert the role of atheists, agnostics, skeptics, freethinkers, and secular humanists within the Unitarian Universalist Association
- United Coalition of Reason [r]: Add brief definition or description (UnitedCoR), a national organization that works to raise the visibility of local groups in the community of reason