The venue depends what our goals is: 1) memberships or 2) community exposure to the scientific ideas .... or both. If we want membership, we have to do face-to-face (or at least that is what works best based on past experience).
The reason that I recommended a church is that you have a captive audience on Sunday. However, Preston has some points about whether atheists/agnostics who are new to the scene will attend the event at a church and whether or not we will be able to mingle with potential new members--at least I think those were his implied points. I don't know. We've never done an event at a church venue but Victor Stenger could do a plug for our group at the beginning of his speech. Also, if Stenger has a talk such as "God: The Failed Hypothesis" that might get people to venture into a church. As far as the U of M venue, students will only attend in large numbers if it (1) is required for a class or at least students' get credit and (2) doesn't coincide with church service. So whatever works best to promote our mission and there may be arguments for each venue. On Jan 24, 11:07 am, Clogtowner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi y'all - info for all members. MFA has engaged Victor Stenger to > speak on Sunday October 18th - venue to be decided. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Memphis Freethought Alliance" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/memphisfreethoughtalliance?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
