Standing alone: atheism club provides for students questioning their faith

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http://www.statepress.com/article/2017/03/spartcult-lack-of-atheist-student-organizations-at-asu

Standing alone: atheism club provides for students questioning their faith
The only officially recognized group at ASU for students who are atheist attempts to combat the stigma around not being religious

Although atheism is a growing identity in America that is relatively popular on college campuses, some feel ASU lacks options when it comes to student-organized atheist groups.

In the ASU OrgSync, the search query "Christian" provided 52 results at the time of publishing. The "religious" category altogether listed 73 groups. "Atheist" turned up only two separate groups. One of those groups is the Secular Student Alliance, a national secular student organization with chapters in most major universities.

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Secular Student Alliance is the only secular (or) atheist group on campus," he said. "There was another one last year, but unfortunately what happened -— and this can happen to clubs — is that the members: a lot of them were graduating or already done with college and they weren't doing a good job with recruiting new members. And so their club ended up dying out."
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"If we want atheist ideals to propagate through, I think we need to advocate through secularism," he said.

"The problem that we face, at least in the United States, is a degradation of a secular society. We have a lot of (states) that have attempted to teach Bible-ist truth. I'd much prefer to see advocacy against things like that versus ... (explaining) why we're atheists. I think people get the idea pretty well already. What I think a lot of people don't realize is how poisonous a non-secular society is."