What we’re about
This group is for those keen to meet (online or in person) with other freethinkers, humanists, atheists and secularists. Our meetings are usually light and social. Sometimes we have discussions or presentations.
The group is run by South African Secular Society (registered NPO) leaders - see our website - [https://secularsociety.org.z](https://secularsociety.org.za/)a. Our goals are to develop and support the non-religious community in South Africa, to provide opportunities for socialising and secular education, to promote secular viewpoints, to encourage a positive atheist/non-believing culture, to defend the principle of separation of religion and government, and to oppose discrimination against the non-religious in South Africa.
We also have interests in supporting human rights including those of LGBTIQ+ people, women, and children.
We have a large and growing number of secular Marriage Officers in major centres.
Visit our Facebook page: https://web.facebook.com/SAsecular/.
Upcoming events (3)
See all- The Book "Invented Afterlives" Presented by the AuthorLink visible for attendees
Prof. Andreas Engelbrecht will discuss his book "Invented Afterlives: The bullshit we believe in" and answer questions.
Is there any compelling evidence for afterlife claims, which, from a rational point of view, sounds like pure fantasy? Is an existence in which billions of people are burning in hell, an ethical existence for a deity and its selected human followers? How do these ideologies influence people and their politics? What kind of activities are likely to occur in the afterlife, and what would, for example, be the purpose of sex in the afterlife, as proposed by certain religions? Or would afterlife only consist of praising a deity, and would that be a sensible way to exist? If there is no good evidence for any afterlife, does it still make sense to live one’s only life in pursuit thereof?
This book is an important critique on a major and universal claim of nearly every religion on the planet. If afterlife ideologies are indeed absurd and untrue, it has implications for how humans choose to live their lives and how they conserve their only habitable planet.
This book is also unique in the genre of critique on religion, in that it appraises both the Abrahamic religions with their heaven-hell duality and Eastern religions following the ideology of samsara and reincarnation.
Here are links where members can read an abstract and an extensive free sample of the book:.
https://naledi.co.za/product/invented-afterlives/
https://amzn.to/4hH1OJt
You can buy the book at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVTDRDM1Prof. Andreas Engelbrecht is Head of Clinical Unit: Emergency Medicine, Department of Critical Care and Emergency Services, Steve Biko Academic Hospital, and Head: Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria.
