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Mission Statement

MSCD Atheists is an affiliate of The Center for Inquiry (CFI); Which is an international not-for-profit umbrella organization uniting freethinking, skeptic, secularist, atheist/agnostic, and humanist students and student organizations. Its purposes are: • To encourage freedom from superstition, irrationalism, and dogma. • To further the acceptance and application of science, reason, and critical thinking in all areas of human endeavor. • To challenge misrepresentations of non-religious convictions and lifestyles. • To create a campus community for freethinkers and skeptics. • To cultivate in ourselves — and others — a sense of responsibility to, and compassion for, humanity. • To counter all forms of religious political extremism. • To defend religious freedom and the separation of church and state. • To defend individual freedoms and civil liberties for all persons, regardless of race, sex, gender, class, creed, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability. • To unite freethinkers, skeptics, and humanists and consolidate campus resources to these ends. In fulfillment of its purposes, the CFI pursues various goals: • Advancing the public understanding and appreciation of science • Exposing pseudoscience • Upholding the separation of church and state in public education • Investigating claims of the paranormal • Safeguarding the freedom of expression and opposing censorship • Defending academic freedom • Challenging academic fads and orthodoxy • Debating the philosophy of science, skepticism, and theism • Stimulating meaningful dialogue among religious and nonreligious students • Exploring secular and humanist ethics • Fighting racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, and heterosexism • Constructing positive social networks for those who dissent and question

Other Affiliations

Secular Student Alliance
COCORE
Rational Response Squad
Atheist Nexus

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