James Underdown – Executive Director, CFI
Name: James Underdown Location: Los Angeles, CA Label: Skeptic, Freethinker, Atheist, Agnostic, & Secular Humanist Organization Affiliation: Center For Inquiry (CFI) About me: I am the Poet Laureate of Calumet City, IL. I once wrestled a bear. Appeared on Oprah to advocate sex before marriage. Once lifted 600 lbs off a weight rack. Founder, Independent Investigations Group. Survived 3 motorcycle crashes without major injury… and so much...
Read MoreDavid Fitzgerald – Historian & Author
Name: David Fitzgerald Born: 1964 Location: San Francisco, CA Organization Affiliation: Center for Inquiry (CFI), Secular Student Alliance (SSA), & National Atheist Party (NAP) Label: Atheist Former Religious Affiliation: Christian About me: David Fitzgerald is a sweet, kind man who enjoys speaking at different conferences and conventions about his book, “Nailed: 10 Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed” David also is the Director/Founder of the Evolutionpalooza! and Atheist Film Fest. His most recent discussion focused on the Mormon religion (LDS) where he points...
Read MoreTim Finnegan
Name: Tim Finnegan Born: 1998 Location: Pleasant Hill, California Label: Atheist, Secularist, Skeptic Former Religious Affiliation: Catholicism Your Story: I was born and raised in the general Martinez-Pleasant Hill area of California, near the San Francisco Bay. My father had been raised to be a devote Catholic. He went to Catholic school all the way until his graduation day. Naturally, when me and my siblings were born, he and my grandparents (my mother wasn’t too big on religion) began to fit me with what Seth Andrews calls “God Glasses”, which is simply another way...
Read MoreSean Elias
Name: Sean Elias Location: Santa Monica, CA Label: Atheist, Humanist Former Religious Affiliation: Irish Catholic, New Thought Christianity My Story I was raised as an Irish Catholic by an Irish immigrant family who were not religious but wanted to save money on my schooling. The primary school I went to was christian and made non-believers pay more to attend than believers. When I was 14, I left the Catholic faith, but not Christianity. I explored other religions as well as Western and Eastern philosophies until a few years ago. At that time, I became an...
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