Welcome to the Stockton Area Atheists and Freethinkers! We are an organization of non-believers that focuses on: Community Involvement Social Events Education and Information Activism Most of our meetings are held in the Central Valley, from Lodi to Turlock -- though we occasionally join efforts with our friends in Sacramento and the Bay Area. We have these monthly events: Secular Family Day (First Sunday) Book Club (First Tuesday, Ceres) Drinking Skeptically (Third Friday, Miracle Mile) Ga …

The Center for Inquiry is a transnational organziation whose purpose is to promote and defend reason, science, and freedom of inquiry in all areas of human endeavor. It encourages evidence-based inquiry into science, pseudoscience, medicine and health, religion, ethics, secularism, and society. The San Francisco Center for Inquiry engages the local community in support of those aims by sponsoring events and providing outreach. Our website is http://centerforinquiry.net/sf Events that may be of i …

North Bay Skeptics are: humanists, atheists, freethinkers, agnostics and undeclared, who embrace modern skepticism. We celebrate the scientific method, and the application of logic and evidence to all claims. As in the tradition of many Skeptical groups world wide, we like to gather for lively discussion on current topics and apply our skills towards debunking the latest pseudoscience fad. “Discussion”, includes chatting, mingling, eating, and joke telling, all while consuming non-homeopathic li …

Atheists of Butte County is a California north state association of Freethinkers, Humanists, Rationalists, Skeptics and Atheists united to provide members with meaningful social, educational, voluntary and advocacy activities. Is this a group for you? Well, ask yourself these questions: Are you tired of feeling like a second-class citizen and defending your non-belief? Would you like to do something to get religion out of government? Has critical thinking made believing difficult but you don’t …

Meet other freethinkers, atheists and nonbelievers in the greater Sacramento area. We gather to discuss beliefs and philosophies, hear provocative speakers, and make new friends. We have regular meetings, book discussions, film screenings, potlucks and other social events.

This Meetup is a place to join others who are willing to question and challenge cherished dogmas of any stripe. Let's get together at a potluck, meet at a bar or a coffee shop, go hiking, you name it. Exchange ideas, news, share your success stories and get support from other free-thinking people. We're an "umbrella" for a few locations at once: SF, North, East, and South Bays, The Peninsula, and maybe more. Anybody brave enough to organize events in any of those areas is welcome to become an as …

Does 19th-century French philosopher, Henri Bergson, haunt your dreams? If he were still alive (and ambulatory) would you be stalking him? If yes to either, check into a mental health facility immediately, or check out our group. Bergson rated immediate experience and intuition above rationalism and quantitative science. For this he won the Nobel Prize in 1924. Bergson was first and foremost a philosopher of Time and viewed time (motion) as something inherent to matter, not something added to it …

Welcome rational, evidence-based thinkers!  This is our public page. Contra Costa Atheists and Freethinkers (CCAF) values critical thinking. If you recognize that there is no supernatural power behind natural events, then this may be the group for you! CCAF exists for the benefit of its members. Its purpose is to provide informative and enjoyable activities that promote opportunities for faith-free discourse.  We support the efforts of atheists, freethinkers and skeptics in gaining recognition, …

Kol Hadash is a group for Jewish people who identify culturally with the Jewish people and who hold humanistic, non-theistic beliefs and values. We meet usually at the Albany Community Center (near I-80, Buchanan exit) in Albany, CA a few times each month for either intellectual pursuits or a secular celebration of a Jewish holiday or shabbat.  Our website is www.kolhadash.org for more information.

MORE HUMAN and LESS GOD To gather as a humanist community around the ideas expressed in the book Good without God by Greg M. Epstein Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University. Epstein defines humanism as Good without God. If you want the support of like minded nonreligious people with the advantages of a church atmosphere but without the disadvantages of false dogma, this is the group for you.

Desi Rationalists This is a group on rationality and how we incorporate it in our day to day lives as well as in our thinking. WHY DESI (Indian, (also includes-) of Indian origin)? Higher chances meeting people with similar experiences as yourself, Cultural relatability, Easy to organize discussions concerning India, and another parameter to restrict the size of this group if it ever grows big:)- This group will be suitable to you - - If you are either Indian or have Indian roots that have had a …