PA 16th Anniversary - Speaker Topic: Steven Pinker: Atheist, Scientist & Author
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The Progressive Atheists 16th Anniversary Celebration Lunch and Speaker
Topic:
Steven Pinker: The Prominent Atheist, Cognitive Psychologist and Author
Speaker:
John Perkins - Secular Party of Australia
It is the Progressive Atheists Inc.'s 16th Anniversary.
The PA Committee of Management has the pleasure to invite Atheists to join us and our hosts, the Maroondah and Yarra Ranges Atheists, to celebrate our sixteen years of working for the transformation of the community into a just society for all.
This year we are having a pub lunch..
In our first 16 years, we have participated in many campaigns for equality and human rights and against religious privilege.
Campaigns such as supporting the two chaplaincy challenges at the High Court; the right to same gender marriage; the campaign against religious instruction in public schools; the exposure of abuse by religion and many more.
PA has also provided services to Atheists including assisting ex-Muslim asylum seekers.
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"Steven Pinker: The Prominent Atheist, Cognitive Psychologist and Author"
Steven Pinker will be the most prominent Atheist to tour Australia (when he tours in early February 2026) since Richard Dawkins toured two years ago.
https://au.thinkable.events/events/
Steven Pinker is a prominent scientist; specifically a highly influential cognitive psychologist, experimental psychologist, and linguist known for his research on language, mind, and human nature.
The two books (of those authored by Steven Pinker) that are likely of most interest to Atheists are, 'The Better Angels of Our Nature' and 'Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_Now
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Our activism is all part of the long list of activities in which Progressive Atheists is involved.
We are proud of the progress of the organisation.
We have to shatter the power of religion which is based on the manipulation of governments with superstition, ignorance and associated control.
You are invited.
Come and join us.
There will be great company and an open microphone.
2025's predictions will be opened and new predictions made.
The predictions are of the world stage seen by Atheists
Progressive Atheists Inc. came about after a series of workshops and discussions.
The PA was founded on the 10th January 2010 by four Atheists to unite like-minded individuals (who wanted Atheists to contribute to a progressive society in Australia), into an organisation capable of carrying this agenda.
http://progressiveatheists.org/about-us/
We hope to see you at The Coach hotel on the 10th January from 12 noon.
Please share and invite your Atheist friends in Melbourne.
https://www.facebook.com/events/ TBA
https://www.meetup.com/melbourne-atheists/events/312708287/