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Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry

Charleston, SC, US

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Organized by Bonnie Cleaveland and 5 others

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What we’re about

We are an organization of atheists, agnostics, skeptics and other freethinkers based in Charleston, South Carolina.

Please note that not all of us have accounts on Meetup.com. From the RSVPs here, it may look as if only a handful of people are planning to attend, but our regular monthly meetings usually draw between 20 and 50 people. The book group meetings usually draw 10 to 15.

For more information, check out our Webpage at http://lowcountryhumanists.org and sign up for our Mailchimp e-mail announcements.

Upcoming events (4+)

Mon, 19 May 2025, 7:00 pm EDTTrivia Night: Home Team BBQ in West Ashley
Fiery Ron's Home Team BBQ, Charleston, SC
Calling all Trivia buffs! SHL is heading to Home Team BBQ, located at 1205 Ashley River Rd in West Ashley at 7:00 pm on Monday, May 19th for Trivia Night.

Each month we will select a different trivia competition in the Charleston area, so the nights might vary, but if you enjoy a fun night out pitting your random knowledge against others, plan to join us.

Thanks to the generosity of our donors, SHL has funds available to ensure everyone feels welcome and able to participate. If the cost of participation presents a challenge, please email us at shl@lowcountryhumanists.org, and we can discreetly arrange to cover your costs.
4 attendees
Sun, 25 May 2025, 3:00 pm EDTSHL Book Club: Erasing History by Jason Stanley
Charleston County Public Library (Main), Charleston, SC
We are reading Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future by Jason Stanley for our May book club meeting.

The meeting will be held in Meeting Room B of the Main Public Library downtown. Metered street parking is free on Sundays, and there is parking available in the garage under the library (garage closes at 5).

After the meeting we'll go out for food and further conversation.
Thanks to the generosity of our donors, SHL has funds available to ensure everyone feels welcome and able to participate. If you would like to participate in dining with us after book club but the cost presents a challenge, please email us at shl@lowcountryhumanists.org, and we can discreetly arrange to cover your costs.

About the book:
In the United States, democracy is under attack by an authoritarian movement that has found fertile ground among the country’s conservative politicians and voters, but similar movements have found homes in the hearts and minds of people around the globe. To understand the shape, form, and stakes of this assault, we must go back to extract lessons from our past.

In authoritarian countries, critical examination of those nations’ history and traditions is discouraged if not an outright danger to those who do it. And it is no accident that local and global institutions of education have become a battleground, where learning and efforts to upend a hierarchal status quo can be put to end by coercion and threats of violence. Democracies entrust schools and universities to preserve a common memory of positive change, generated by protests, social movements, and rebellions. The authoritarian right must erase this history, and, along with it, the very practice of critical inquiry that has so often been the engine of future progress.

In Erasing History, Yale professor of philosophy Jason Stanley exposes the true danger of the authoritarian right’s attacks on education, identifies their key tactics and funders, and traces their intellectual roots. He illustrates how fears of a fascist future have metastasized, from hypothetical threat to present reality. And with his “urgent, piercing, and altogether brilliant” (Johnathan M. Metzi, author of What We’ve Become) insight, he illustrates that hearts and minds are won in our schools and universities—places that democratic societies across the world are now ill-prepared to defend against the fascist assault currently underway.
9 attendees+4
Thu, 5 June 2025, 7:00 pm EDTSHL Movie Club: Dogma 25th Anniversary Screening
Terrace Theater Cinemas Inc, Charleston, SC
The 25th anniversary screenings of Dogma, titled "Dogma: Resurrected! A 25th Anniversary Celebration", will take place on June 5, 2025, across over 1,500 theaters in the U.S. and Canada, and the SHL Movie Club is going! These special events feature a newly remastered 4K version of the film, accompanied by exclusive bonus content available only in theaters. The extended runtime of 2 hours and 30 minutes includes this additional event cinema content, which may encompass behind-the-scenes footage, cast interviews, or other special features curated for this anniversary celebration.

Dogma is Kevin Smith’s bold and irreverent comedy that blends satire, theology, and road-trip chaos in a uniquely unforgettable way. Featuring an all-star cast including Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Alan Rickman, Linda Fiorentino, Chris Rock, and Salma Hayek, Dogma follows two fallen angels trying to exploit a loophole to reenter Heaven—an act that would unravel existence itself. With equal parts heart, humor, and heresy, this cult classic challenges faith and fandom alike, and remains as provocative and hilarious today as it was in 1999.

We are going to the 7 pm screening at the Terrace Theater.

You can use the link below to purchase tickets. Tickets are open seating so arrive early to try to get a good one. After the film, anyone who wants will walk over to Maybank Public House for drinks.

Buy tickets at:
https://www.terracetheater.com/checkout/showing/dogma-resurrected-a-25th-anniversary-celebration/1689085

Additional info:
Tickets bought online are $16. They may be cheaper if purchased at the theater, but the screening may sell out.

The screening is 2 hours and 30 minutes long which includes the film and bonus content.

Thanks to the generosity of our donors, SHL has funds available to ensure everyone feels welcome and able to participate. If the cost of participation presents a challenge, please email us at shl@lowcountryhumanists.org, and we can discreetly arrange to cover your costs.
8 attendees+3
Sat, 21 June 2025, 8:15 am EDTFood Distribution with Park Circle Cares
North Charleston High School, North Charleston, SC
Volunteer to distribute food with Park Circle Cares. SHL will be supporting Park Circle Cares’ monthly food distribution.

Park Circle Cares is a non-faith based, non-profit organization created in 2016 to assist people in the lowcountry who struggle with food insecurity. Park Circle Cares is a member agency with the Lowcountry Food Bank, and distributes 120-150 thousand pounds of food each year. What makes them unique among the many organizations working on the widespread problem of food insecurity in our community is that they only distribute healthy and nutritious foods, 75% of which is produce. Healthy dry goods and proteins make up the remainder.

Park Circle Cares is operated by an all-volunteer working board, and an enthusiastic group of volunteers who set up a farmers’ market style distribution at North Charleston High School on the third Saturday of each month.
1 attendee

Past events (1153)

Sun, 18 May 2025, 11:30 am EDTSpring Potluck Picnic & Election
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