Come and Meet the Friendly Atheist!

 

Hemant Mehya (Friendly Atheist) is giving a talk in Toronto this Friday. The talk is sponsored by the University of Toronto Secular Alliance.

When? Friday, June 27th, 2008 (Meet & Greet: 6-7pm, Lecture: 7pm-9pm)

Where? U of T's Multi-Faith Centre, 569 Spadina Ave, Multi-Purpose Room (2nd Floor)

How Much? Free!

RSVP (if possible): Facebook

Hemant Mehta comes to Toronto to talk about faith and his experience with "selling his soul".

Hemant Mehta was born into the Jain faith, and became an atheist at age 14. In 2006, he created an auction on eBay offering up his atheist mind and body to attend a worship service of the winning bidder's choice. Every $10 would equal one hour in that particular place of worship.

The bidding ended on February 3, 2006 with the final bid sitting at $504 from Jim Henderson, a minister from Seattle, Washington. The money was later donated by Hemant to the Secular Student Alliance, a non-profit organization. The agreement was for Hemant to visit a variety of churches and to write about his experiences at them at the web-site off-the-map.org.

Hemant later developed these experiences into his book "I Sold My Soul On eBay". He continues to open up dialogue at his personal blog friendlyatheist.com.

Co-hosted by the University of Guelph Skeptics, sponsored by the Secular Students Alliance.

Even though the meeting notice and the RSVP are on Facebook, I'm told that the meeting is not exclusively for university students. If you don't have a Facebook account (I don't) then you can just show up at the meeting (I think).

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