AOF Activities & Events

Rational Refugees from Religious Relatives - Relax, Relate and Recoup (an "R7" event)

If the holiday hectors you, if faith-driven relatives have driven you have half way to batty, you might want to climb a water tower with a rifle. But don't, please don't! Just take your squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old heart to Reason Center to relax and commiserate with your fellow refugees from religion. Our sound system will play non-holiday music as we share snacks, stories and true camaraderie. RC even has a piano, one tuned since the Neanderthal lived in Europe.

To quote old Scrooge's nephew, this really can be a kind, forgiving, charitable and pleasant time, "the only time in the long calendar of the year when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys." You need not be religious to believe in that. Simply, and beautifully, human.

We encourage you to bring: friends, goodies, games, your favorite CD of secular music.