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A Place for the non-believers of Santa Cruz County
Welcome to our web site.
Santa Cruz Atheists is a local group of atheists, humanists, freethinkers and other nontheistic Santa Cruzans. We want to increase the visibility and respectability of nontheistic viewpoints and to protect and strengthen the secular character of our government as the best guarantee of freedom for all.
Everyone who share our ideals is welcome. Take a look around our site, then if you wish to, come to one of our meetings, participate in our activities, or contribute to our blog.
The history of Western civilization shows us that most social and moral progress has been brought about by persons free from religion.
In modern times the first to speak out for prison reform, for humane treatment of the mentally ill, for abolition of capital punishment, for women's right to vote, for death with dignity for the terminally ill, and for the right to choose contraception, sterilization and abortion have been freethinkers, just as they were the first to call for an end to slavery.
We are a group of local folk who are free from religion and are committed to the cherished principle of separation of state and church.
Santa Cruz Atheists has applied for affiliation status with American Atheists
"All thinking men are atheists."
--Ernest Hemingway
"Atheism is a doctrine that states that nothing exists but natural phenomena (matter), that thought is a property or function of matter, and that death irreversibly and totally terminates individual organic units. This definition means that there are no forces, phenomena, or entities which exist outside of or apart from physical nature, or which transcend nature, or are “super” natural, nor can there be. Humankind is on its own."
--American Atheists