Atheist club gives warm welcome to students of all religious backgrounds

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Posted on September 23, 2016
by Jessica Villareal

The First Amendment of the Constitution, considered the foundation of our free society, outlines five basic rights unalienable to all citizens. And one club at PCC has made it it’s mission to make sure the standards of freedom from religion and the separation between church and state continue to be upheld.

The Secular Student Alliance club (SSA) provides a place of comfort and peace for all PCC students who feel like outsiders because of their religious, or nonreligious, beliefs. It lends a welcoming arm, especially for students who are questioning their religion.

“It is a safe place for secular, atheist, agnostic and questioning students where they come and they can say ‘I’m an atheist or I’m not sure what I believe,’ and they’re not gonna be told they’re going to hell or they have no morals,” Terri Smith, president of the SSA said.

Most students who identify as atheist are looked down on, Smith herself has dealt with the prejudice.

http://www.pcccourier.com/features/pcc-atheist-club.html

Imagine that, and without a single statue of Baphomet.

[DetlefK]

1. This whole "Baphomet"-deal is just to irritate Christians.

Atheists only draw connections to Satan and Lucifer because Satan is a character who doubts and Lucifer is a character who refuses to obey. Apart from that, these characters are irrelevant to atheists and are only mentioned to provoke Christians.

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2. They're trolling everybody.

[jonno99]

3. Good to see - and while no one has asked my opinion, this is the direction the ASS Club

should have gone. Stirring shit simply for it's own sake is - irrational...

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4. Worse, it's disruptive and counter-productive.