“One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.” - Robert A. Heinlein

What’s the point in joining an atheist society? If God exists you are moving in the wrong direction and if God doesn’t exist then you are surely wasting your time!

Unfortunately, what other people believe also affects your life and the way in which you live it. If an individual believes something about the world that isn’t true and ends up impinging on the lives of everyone else then suddenly we have a problem.

What if vital medical research that could go a long way to curing a host of ghastly diseases is being held back? What if a deadly sexually transmitted virus is left to run rampant in the third world because people are taught that contraception is wrong? What if people, caught up too heavily in archaic mythology, turn against their neighbours and call for violence in the streets? And what if the cause of each of these atrocities is indeed a mistruth that is drilled into children from an early age, who are promised punishment for alternative thought?

You don’t have to be a rampant atheist (or an atheist at all) to think that these negative effects of various religions must be stopped. Perhaps you feel the only way to fix these problems is to remove the dogma of religions and encourage secularity? Or maybe you feel religion comes with enough benefits to make it worth keeping around, and so should be the tool used to change people’s minds and shun intolerance.

Warwick Atheists is a society intended to bring students around campus together for discussion and debate about atheism, religion, secularity and all related topics. We meet once a week for a social, ranging from drinks in the Graduate to themed meals out, all aimed to create a campus community for those interested in atheism. We do of course concern ourselves with intellectual events too, such as the screening of relevant documentaries, hosting guest speakers and holding debates with other faith societies on campus. What other people believe matters, which is why joining the society and contributing to the discussion is so important.

Joining doesn’t make you an atheist, it makes you open-minded.

We are most active on our Facebook group, so check us out there, or read the forums here at warwickatheists.co.uk!