Secularsociety.co.za Website Review

The South African Secular Society (SAS*) is a community that strives to develop and promote the following aspects of local communities. We advance secular viewpoints and support sceptical and non-religious communities. We collaborate with other organisations in pursuit of common goals. We aim to provide opportunities for socialising and secular education. We uphold and defend the principle of the separation of religion and state. We oppose and defend discrimination against the non-religious. Although being secular does not necessarily mean to be a non-religious or an atheist, our community was founded by a group of non-religious people in South Africa who often identify as atheists, sceptics, agnostics, secularists, non-theists and humanists, among other terms. Want to know what we’re writing, reading and sharing? Great! Head over to our blog to catch up on all matters godless. To be a secularist means to oppose religion-based discrimination, which – put another way – means others are disadvantaged or We are particularly concerned about education. We think that religion in schools damages the prospects of a harmonious and diverse society. Secularists are not against the right of individuals to have a religious faith. What we oppose is special treatment for religious Promote a society in which there is no advantage in law for any individual or group or person by their religion or belief or lack Want to know what we’re up to? Join the SAS* MEETUP GROUP and meet godless people in your area. phase with this organisation, but we have come thus far to have at least three main goals for the organisation: To start a charity initiative to which we will contribute our physical time and effort (as opposed to just giving money to other charities) As non-believers, some of us (at least those of us new to non-belief) often don’t know many like-minded people. Social events are a large part of SAS* and are what brought the first lot of us together. We hold monthly meetings in the Gauteng area (see the events calendar) in