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muriel_volestrangler

(101,320 posts)
Sat Oct 18, 2014, 08:47 AM Oct 2014

Anyone remember an international atheist organisation set up in the past year or so?

It seemed to get a fair amount of publicity at the time, on atheist-friendly blogs, anyway, and maybe in a bit of the media too. It struck me at the time as very American-oriented - mostly Americans, a couple of Canadians, and Richard Dawkins, among about 20 'board members' and 'advisers' or similar titles, if I remember correctly - and I criticised it as such, but I can't remember if that was here or in a comment on a blog. It looked a bit like an offshoot of an American organisation that was trying to go international.

So I wanted to see what it was doing now it had had a bit of time; but I can't remember the name, and my google searching has drawn a blank so far. It's possible it was called 'humanist' or even 'secular' rather than 'atheist'. I have the vague feeling Jerry Coyne was also in its collection of noteworthies, but that could be wrong. Any ideas, anyone?

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Anyone remember an international atheist organisation set up in the past year or so? (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Oct 2014 OP
Secular Global Institute, maybe... onager Oct 2014 #1
Thank you - they started as the 'Global Secular Council' muriel_volestrangler Oct 2014 #2

onager

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1. Secular Global Institute, maybe...
Sat Oct 18, 2014, 12:34 PM
Oct 2014

All the usual suspects were on the board - The Dawk, Shermer, Harris, Dennett, Edwina Rogers etc.

Here's their website:

http://secularglobalinstitute.org/

muriel_volestrangler

(101,320 posts)
2. Thank you - they started as the 'Global Secular Council'
Sat Oct 18, 2014, 01:41 PM
Oct 2014

which didn't help my search for my comment (it was on a blog, and compared their 'global' to the 'World Series', because Toronto Blue Jays). It does look like they've added someone from Iran and Bangladesh since the start, so it's not quite as narrow as before, but still looks a bit US-centric.

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