Saturday, May 4, 3pm, The Oracle, 1159 Oak St.

The National Day of Reason event is the Atheist response to the National Day of Prayer, which is Saturday, May 4. Please join us again to meet and mingle with Atheists from all the area as represented by several Columbus Coalition of Reason groups: Omnipresent Atheists (OA), Central Ohio United Non-Theists (COUNT), Humanist Community of Central Ohio, UU Atheists/Skeptics/Humanists, Recovery From Religion, Secular Student Alliance at OSU, and Atheist Membership for Equitable Nominations (AMEN).

The event starts at 3pm at The Oracle Bar in Old Town East. Pizza will be provided; donations will be accepted. Feel free to bring, if you wish, a dessert, a side dish, or fruit. The event is open to the public, and membership in these specific organizations is not necessary, so invite your friends.

Headlining the event will be Frank Zindler, the grandfather of Columbus-area atheists. Frank will be speaking for ten minutes as a prelude to a longer presentation in celebration of his birthday on Saturday, May 25. Frank will be available to discuss his long and impressive atheist career with anyone who is interested.

A former professor of biology and geology (SUNY system) for twenty years, Frank was a close associate of Madalyn Murray O’Hair. A member of the governing board of American Atheists since the early 1980s, he served as interim president of the organization in 2008. After the murder of O’Hair and her family in 1995, he has served as editor of American Atheist Press.

Frank is a veteran of over 400 commercial radio and TV talk shows and debates and is widely recognized as one of the most effective debaters defending state-church separation, evolution education, abortion, and equality. Forced to end a twenty-year career in education when he joined Madalyn Murray O’Hair in a lawsuit to remove religious mottoes from U.S. currency, he has worked for 36 years as a linguist and analyst of chemical research documents for a learned society in Ohio.

Donations may be made in person at the event.