About us
This group is operated by the Tri-City Freethinkers (July 26, 2011). [IRS ID#31669]
The Tri-City Freethinkers is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community outreach organization serving the religion-free population of the Tri-Cities metropolitan area (Kennewick, Pasco, Richland, and West Richland) by bringing nonreligious community members together for support, education, and advocacy. We sponsor a range of social and educational events throughout the year including guest speakers from both the national secular movement and from our local/regional area. We provide opportunities for our members to engage with the broader community and elected officials and perform volunteer work in partnership with other local organizations.
We are a diverse group consisting of atheists, agnostics, skeptics, heathens, secular humanists, and pantheists; men and women; young, old, and in between; straight and LGBT; all ethnic and cultural heritages; highly educated to minimally educated; affluent and not; and people from all religious backgrounds and all ends of the political spectrum.
Affiliated with American Atheists and a member of the Mid-Columbia Coalition of Reason, the Tri-City Freethinkers offers a welcoming environment for nontheistic residents seeking relief from the religiosity of southeastern Washington.
We encourage you to follow our public page on Facebook, join our Facebook group, follow us on Twitter @TCFreethinker, and join us at one of our meetings or events.
To get an idea of what we do, check out this list of past events we've hosted or participated in.
You may be interested in these local satellite groups:
Tri-Cities Drinking Skeptically on Meetup and Facebook
Reasonable Doubt: A Secular Book Club
Young Freethinkers of the Tri-Cities
Tri-City Raising Freethinkers on Meetup and Facebook
Recovering from Religion: Tri-Cities Chapter
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Critical Views - watching something
Round Table Pizza, 1769 Leslie Road, Richland, WA, US#### Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat. Set in 1944 in Normandy, France, during World War II, it follows a group of soldiers, led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), on a mission to locate Private James Francis Ryan (Matt Damon) and bring him home safely after his three brothers have been killed in action. The cast also includes Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, and Jeremy Davies.
Inspired by the books of Stephen E. Ambrose and accounts of multiple soldiers in a single family, such as the Sullivan brothers and the Niland brothers, being killed in action, ... almost entirely on location in England and Ireland. The opening Omaha Beach battle was the most demanding scene ... using 1,500 background actors.
Released on July 24, 1998, Saving Private Ryan became one of the year's most successful films, earning critical acclaim for its graphic portrayal of combat. WWII veterans described the combat scenes as the most realistic portrayal of their own experiences they had seen; some said they had been unable to watch it due to their traumatic memories.
Considered one of the greatest war films ever made, Saving Private Ryan's battle-scene filming techniques inspired many subsequent war, action, and superhero films ... In 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".3 attendees
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