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Welcome to OCAtheists.com, the online home of Orange County Atheists, a group for like-minded people in and around Orange County, CA. We welcome all comments and questions about the site, about us, and about religion and atheism in general.

OC Atheists exists primarily as a social gathering group, meeting once a month over dinner and drinks to discuss religion, politics, and the news of the day. Our meetings are typically on a weeknight around 7:30pm at a restaurant in Orange County. We'd love to have you at our next meeting!

Orange County Atheists News

August Open Thread

Use this space for any sort of atheist, church/state, local event discussion. Depending on use, we'll start a new topic as needed. Chat away!

Posted by Michael Doss on August 15, 2008 at 10:35 AM | Comments (9)

September Meeting

The Next Orange County Atheists meeting will take place Wednesday, September 10 at 7:30PM at the International House of Pancakes at 18542 MacArthur Blvd in Irvine, near John Wayne Airport. Those interested will also meet for a less formal gathering at 6:00PM at the El Torito across from the IHOP before coming to the 7:30PM meeting.

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Posted by Michael Doss on August 15, 2008 at 10:34 AM | Comments (0)

Open Thread - July

Hello everyone! There's been talk at meetings (and via email) about having a place online to post links, have discussions, etc. Use this space for any sort of atheist, church/state, local event discussion. Depending on use, we'll start a new topic as needed. Chat away!

Posted by Michael Doss on July 10, 2008 at 03:09 PM | Comments (3)

August Meeting

The Next Orange County Atheists meeting will take place Thursday, August 14 at 7:30PM at the International House of Pancakes at 18542 MacArthur Blvd in Irvine, near John Wayne Airport. Those interested will also meet for a less formal gathering at 6:00PM at the El Torito across from the IHOP before coming to the 7:30PM meeting.

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Posted by Michael Doss on July 9, 2008 at 10:46 PM | Comments (16)

July Meeting

The Next Orange County Atheists meeting will take place Wednesday, July 9 at 7:30PM at the International House of Pancakes at 18542 MacArthur Blvd in Irvine, near John Wayne Airport. Those interested will also meet for a less formal gathering at 6:00PM at the El Torito across from the IHOP before coming to the 7:30PM meeting.

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Posted by Michael Doss on June 12, 2008 at 10:36 AM | Comments (17)

June Meeting

The Next Orange County Atheists meeting will take place Wednesday, June 11 at 7:30PM at the International House of Pancakes at 18542 MacArthur Blvd in Irvine, near John Wayne Airport. Those interested will also meet for a less formal gathering at 6:00PM at the El Torito across from the IHOP before coming to the 7:30PM meeting.

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Posted by Michael Doss on May 6, 2008 at 10:46 PM | Comments (17)

Photos from UCI Garrison-Martineau Project event

On April 23, the UCI Atheist, Agnostics & Rationalists (AAR) and Mission Viejo based Stand to Reason took part in a Garrison-Martineau Project event at UCI. Pictures of the event are available at http://quickwired.com/stories/20080423_uci_atheist_theist/.

AAR is also doing another event on April 30th from 5-6pm: "EVOLUTION IS FACT AND IT IS THE UNIFYING CONCEPT OF BIOLOGY", A lecture about evolution by UCI's Professor Ayala. Visit the group's website for more info

Posted by Michael Doss on April 24, 2008 at 10:44 AM | Comments (0)

Niko Shows off OCA

I received this from Niko last week, and wanted to wait to post it until we were done with Villa Park stuff. Good work!

For the past 13 months I've been invited to attend the Laguna Beach Interfaith Council meetings representing the non-church affiliated in Laguna Beach. At today’s meeting, by some coincidence, the South County Outreach Program was on the meeting agenda with Thomas Whaling and Megan Smith making presentations. When the subject of food collection came up, I interjected that just last week about 40 atheists collected 200 pounds of non-perishable food and considerable money for South County Outreach. Megan verified that Orange County Atheists were very generous to SCO. In closing I mentioned that even though we (atheists) may not go to church, we can still be generous and giving. I think, as they say in my native Nu Yawk, we done good today (at least with the Laguna Beach faithful).
Posted by Michael Doss on April 23, 2008 at 11:56 AM | Comments (0)

How to fight "In God We Trust"

It was brought up at the April meeting that we should coordinate to fight the Bakersfield lady who is pushing all the city council's to put the nation's slogan up at all the city halls. Click "Continue reading..." to see how you can help and discuss planning and strategy.

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Posted by Michael Doss on April 11, 2008 at 11:42 AM | Comments (20)

May Meeting

The Next Orange County Atheists meeting will take place Tuesday, May 6 at 7:30PM at the International House of Pancakes at 18542 MacArthur Blvd in Irvine, near John Wayne Airport.

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Posted by Michael Doss on April 10, 2008 at 03:54 PM | Comments (11)

Liberal Atheist Vegetarian

Atheist stories from the Liberal Atheist Vegetarian blog at the Orange County Register.