A tale of two conversations about god
Saturday, December 6th, 2008When I was a student at Auckland university, I got involved with a number of student social clubs, as you do.
One was the university role playing club which was called AMERICA, a rather tortured acronym which stood for ‘Association for Middle-Earth Role playing and Individual Character Assimilation’.
Don’t blame me – I didn’t name it. I’m sure it seemed like a good idea at the time. I did get elected to be the club President at one point which meant I could make the obvious joke. It wasn’t funny then either.
But that’s not really the topic of this post.
More importantly, I was part of the formation of a completely new student group, the Auckland University Freethinkers, which was a small and loose association of assorted atheists, agnostics, and sceptics.