Jen McCreight, (
Blag Hag) has done a
blogathon for the past three years to raise money for the
Secular Student Alliance. For 24 hours, she posts a new blog post every 30 minutes, with no pre-writing or auto-posting allowed. Caffeine-fueled, crazy, funny and sometimes amazing, an exhaustion-propelled blogathon can be a fun-filled experience for everyone!
This year, Jen has
snagged some victims organized more participants! There is a schedule of featured bloggers
here, but I can tell you that Dale McGowan, author of
Parenting Beyond Belief (not to mention awesome blogger at The Meming of Life) has just
posted that he is
in!
Other bloggers on the roster include: Greta Christina (
Greta Christina's Blog), Hank Fox (
Blue Collar Atheist), Al Stefanelli (
Al Stefanelli), and Natalie Reed (
Sincerely, Natalie Reed)!
The Blogathon participants are hoping to raise plenty of funds to continue the growth of the
Secular Student Alliance, which is one of the few organizations available to high school and college students as an alternative to the
numerous religious organizations which dot campuses across the nation.
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cru? WTF does that mean?
Oh well, it's definitely not a group with
an agenda - look how hip this logo is! |
One such
powerful,
secretively-
funded and
agenda-driven religious group is Campus Crusade for Christ. Campus Crusade for Christ has recently changed its name in what they claimed was a bid
not to hide its explicitly Christian religious agenda but to remove the word "Crusade" which they seemed to have only recently discovered that some people find objectionable. The fact that this change coincides with an increase in the number of secular student groups attempting to be recognized on campuses - and the fact that secular and atheist student groups are often denied official recognition based upon a college's professed policy of not endorsing a religious viewpoint (blithely ignoring both that secular organizations are not religious and most colleges currently have
long lists of recognized religiously affiliated groups on campus - my irony-meter just went past bust) definitely had
nothing to do with it! The new name "CRU" retains the core of "crusade" while hiding the Christ, which suits this organization just fine because it is
not at all deceptive or contradictory. Hiding the fundamentalist religious agenda behind a banal "it's all about hip, youthful, community fun" public face is the Campus Crusade modus operandi, and the stylishly meaningless new logo fits right in with their cool, aw shucks, honest-to-godliness stealth strategy.
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Openly and honestly secular,
promoting freethinking and
freedom of and from religion. |
In spite of continued
opposition, the Secular Student Alliance is
growing! Compared to Campus Crusade for Christ's $500 million annual budget, the SSA's annual budget of less than $1 million makes it hard to compete,
and yet they are growing.
The reason why is simple: young people are turning away from the manipulative clutches of religion in higher numbers than ever. Help SSA out in their effort to provide options for freethinking youth. Read freethinker bloggers (several suggested blogs linked to the right),
donate to Secular Student Alliance so that they can meet or exceed the projected goals shown below and most of all...
Enjoy the blogathon!
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| Let's keep the growth of REASON going! |
