Main Gathering Saturday, July 17

What would it be like to live in a truly secular country? A country where nonbelief is “normal, regular, mainstream, and common?” Does such a society create chaos and evil or does it succeed in spite of its godliness? These are the topics of sociologist Phil Zuckerman’s book Society without God in which he describes the year that he spent in Scandinavia seeking to understand how Denmark and Sweden became probably the least religious countries in the world, and possibly in the history of the world. Our fellow humanist and former HOH vice-president Dianne Vitaska will give a detailed report on Zuckerman’s book and lead a discussion afterwards.