Welcome to the Long Island branch of the Center for Inquiry (CFI), a nonprofit organization advancing science, reason, and secular values. The Center for Inquiry-Long Island sponsors public educational programs, philosophy discussions, book clubs, and social events. Come meet people in your neighborhood, exercise your brain, and get involved. For more information, please e-mail akelly@centerforinquiry.net.

The City Congregation for Humanistic Judaism provides a welcoming, diverse community for cultural and secular Jews where we can celebrate and preserve our Jewish identity. As Humanistic Jews we rely on reason, inner strength, and the support of community to face life's challenges and collectively improve the world. We welcome everyone: families, singles, unaffiliated Jews, intermarried or interfaith families, single parent families, LGBT community, atheists, and agnostics. All are welcome here. …

This aim of this group is to raise awareness and stir action among the humanists, atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, and other like-minded citizens in Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam Counties.

1) What we stand for: Equal rights for nonbelievers and believers We think everyone deserves the same rights and privileges regardless of whether or not they have religious beliefs Separation of government and religion At present there is way too much religion in politics and government to the detriment of both – we support their separation as prescribed in the US Constitution A sharing of the tax burden by all Tax exemptions and special privileges for religion cost US taxpayers as much as …

Bright's are people whose ethics and world view are naturalistic and wish to identify themselves as Brights. Read this: http://www.the-brights.net/vision/essays/futrell_geisert_period.html * * *

Ethical Culture is a movement centered on ethics, not theology, whose mission is to encourage respect for humanity and nature and to create a better world. Members are committed to personal ethical development in their relationships with others and in activities involving social justice and environmental stewardship. What We Believe We believe all individuals have inherent worth and dignity, the potential to grow and change, a responsibility to strive for ethical growth, and a responsibility to …

We’re a discussion group with a focus on rationality, philosophy, science, technology, skepticism and ethics. We choose members who are friendly, intellectually curious, intelligent, non-religious, and rationally-minded – meaning that we’re more interested in figuring out the truth together than in proving ourselves right, or in arguing for the sake of arguing. Our members are young, almost all in the range of 20 to 35 years old. Our meetings are usually informal group discussions at someone’s a …

We are a community dedicated to fostering ethical humanist beliefs and values and to improving the human condition through individual and collective action. We celebrate diversity and welcome newcomers of all faiths, color, sexual orientations, and nationalities - anyone who agrees with the idea that we need to help in making the world a better, more ethical place. We have activities and events for all age groups. Among our activities are a Sunday School, a teen group, and for adults we have so …

We are mostly members of the Humanist Association of Connecticut who dine together and discuss humanist issues at least once a month. We welcome other humanists to join us! Our Hartford-area affiliate now has its own meetup group!

This is an inclusive support group for all homeschoolers in Fairfield County. It is a place to connect with other families, plan playdates and field trips, as well as share educational information and support. The focus of the group is on young homeschoolers: preschoolers and elementary-aged children. We hope to nurture a community for our kids that is filled with long lasting friendships! We keep meetups to one or two a day to foster a community wherein kids and parents alike can establish stro …

ATHEISTS GROUP WHOSE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE IS THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. FOR DETAILS: WWW.NYC-ATHEISTS.ORG

Join us for a film screening and discussions that address key issues in Russian Jewish history, culture and identity. Dr. Olga Gershenson, the internationally renowned scholar of Soviet-Jewish films will lead us in addressing questions about tradition and assimilation, religion and secularism, and history and memory. Come and enjoy the unique films, vibrant discussions, home like atmosphere and delicious refreshments in the Russian-Jewish style! This is a 4-sessions series. In partnership with t …

Get up to date information about dates, times, and locations for all those Richies List events. The List is for events that have to do with Atheists, Skeptics, Philosophers, Brights, Humanists, agnostics, freethinkers, secularists, and those who want to build community without worshipping. Join Richies list to get info on all other like groups. Join us for Fridays Drinking With Atheists, DWA.

We are a society of humanists, most of whom live in the Greater Hartford area.  We organize social events, discussion groups, meetings with guest speakers, outdoor activities, and philanthropic endeavors.  As a community, we seek to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity.

We are the group of homeschoolers (age 3 and up) who are willing to pursuit natural interests with friends regardless of their religion or race through projects, workshops, trips, picnics, play dates and so on. Let’s enjoy together the diversity of places to go and cultures to experience which New York City provides to us! Not only children but their parents have a chance to make friends and share of their ideas, resources and time. We welcome anyone who trusts child/children’s nature and believ …

Welcome to the Reasonable New York meetup site. http://reasonablenewyork.com/members for more information, and to sign-up with one of our many member organizations' meetups and websites.

Had enough of astrologers, psychics, homeopaths, and spirit channelers? Yearning to talk with someone rational for awhile? Meetup with other local skeptics for some refreshing and sane conversation. Drinking Skeptically does not take "official" positions on political, religious, academic, or other matters. For example, Drinking Skeptically is not an "atheist" organization; nor is it a "non-atheist" organization. All we are interested in is providing a social venue for rationalists, critical-th …

Do you love Judiasm but have a problem with worshipping "God"? Do you want to experience and share your sense of spirituality without the compulsion to believe? Is the wonder of nature and life enough to stir your spirituality? Are you proud of our ancestral roots but are tired of having to explain away the many moral and intellectual deficits of the ancient texts? If so, let's get togther and see if we can create a non-theistic Jewish spiritual community - one that permits us to engage in all …

Westchester Oneg and Kiddush Club is a social group for Jews of all backgrounds. No matter whether you consider yourself secular, unaffiliated, Just Jewish, Humanistic, Reconstructionist, Jewish Renewal, culturally Jewish, Reform, Conservative, Conservadox, Traditional, Flexidox, Orthodox, Yeshivish, Litvish, Chabad Lubavitch, Hassidic, OTD (Off the Derech) or any other affiliation, we're here for you! If you're Sephardic, Ashkenazi, Russian, Beta Israel, Bene Israel, Baghdadi, Persian, Syrian, …

Are you tired of dealing with people imposing their superstitions on you? Do you need a break form the irrational? Then join a group of skeptical individuals for an evening of food, drink and skepticism! In the spirit of Robert Green Ingersoll we will meet up on the thirteenth of every month and will not be afraid to break mirrors, spill salt, and in general throw our irrational fears to the wind! So come out and toast reason, logic, and critical thinking!

Acem Meditation You don’t try to relax. You just sit comfortably in a chair with eyes closed, practicing a simple mental technique, allowing a deep relaxation to take hold of body and mind. In Acem Meditation, you repeat a meditation sound mentally without effort, while thoughts and impressions are allowed to come and go freely. There is no attempt at emptying the mind. Relaxation comes naturally. Knots and ties unravel, stress and worries gradually give way to a calmer frame of mind. Afterwar …

By "religion-based bigotry," we mean both (1) bigotry against people because of their religion (or lack thereof) and (2) bigotry rooted in or excused by religion, e.g. bigotry against gays. NYARBB aims to oppose the religious right wing on many different fronts. For information about New Yorkers Against Religion-Based Bigotry, please see the NYARBB main website ( http://nyarbb.com/ ) and the NYARBB blog ( http://blog.nyarbb.org/ ). See especially the main site's "About NYARBB" page ( http://nyar …

Meet other local Humanists, people who believe in the basic goodness of the human spirit without supernaturalism. Join others in good conversation and learn more about what you can do with other who think the same way. Join us each month for Movie nights, the popluar book club, and once a month Sunday Brunch. We have many more events and sometime join other groups. Check out Center for Inquiry and Richies List for other events to attend.

Meet other local atheists, agnostics, humanists, skeptics, and other freethinkers. Gather to discuss beliefs, philosophies, current events--and make new friends.

Tour the universe.  Drop in any week.  The universe is a big place, but my class is ongoing, and I am up to the challenge.  It takes 2-3 years for me to do a round trip.  With live links to the Wide World Web as my in-class resource, I have an unlimited supply of mind expanding pictures and movies to discuss.  Plus digital universe simulations that I run of the Earth's place in the galaxy, and the galaxy's place in the universe.  For example, on the tour of the Universe, we started in close, zoo …

Truth is at best partial, at worst error. We are at best explorers, at worst believers. If we desire to fully grow we must keep exploring. . .  Welcome Explorers! (And curious believers too!) This is a group for exploring and testing each other's new ideas, and for the potential of creating even more together! As a starting point we'll discuss the possibility of: A natural morality based on our passion's values; A politics that roots out resentment so we can enjoy a unified diversity; And a cult …

A.N.B.U a.k.a. "TRU-The Reality Union" (tm2007) Allied Non-Believers United is an unbrella organization to allow all non-believers of the supernatural and religeous cultural myth to have one regisitry to represent us. Goals: 1. Establish non-profit status 2. Connect all non-believers under one unbrella organization 3. Establish fund for lobbying, political goals, legal representation. 4. Assert contitutional equality for atheists and other non-believers of differing descriptors. 0r s …

Woo abounds here in the Hudson Valley. Come escape to reality and drink skeptically with some like-minded folks. Haven't nailed down a venue yet, but hoping to make it a monthly thing, and if there is enough interest but everyone is spread out throughout the Valley I think having it "float" between towns might make it easier for all interested. Ideas for venues welcome!