The Atheist Community of Austin

What We're About

The Atheist Community of Austin is organized as a nonprofit educational corporation to develop and support the atheist community, to provide opportunities for socializing and friendship, to promote secular viewpoints, to encourage positive atheist culture, to defend the first amendment principle of state-church separation, to oppose discrimination against atheists and to work with other organizations in pursuit of common goals.

We define atheism as the lack of belief in gods. This definition also encompasses what most people call agnosticism.

Our flagship activities include:

The Atheist Experience weekly cable access TV Show
The Non Prophets biweekly Internet radio show
A number of community service activities
The ACA Lecture Series monthly public lecture, usually the 1st Sunday of the month
The Austin Atheist monthly newsletter posted at the beginning of each month
Atheist Eve Cartoon updated at the beginning of each month

Come Meet Us

Want to meet us? The first sunday of the month we will be at the Austin History Center from 12:15-2:00pm for our monthly lecture. Other Sunday mornings, we meet at Romeo's, 11:30am-1:00pm, 1500 Barton Springs Rd. [Google Map].

If you're not a morning person, come hang out with us some evening. Thursday evening is happy hour at the Dog & Duck Pub, 406 W. 17th St. near the Capitol [Google Map] starting at 7:00 pm. On Sunday afternoons, the cast and crew of the Atheist Experience meet up in a restarant after the show and invite the audience. See the Atheist Experience website for details.

Feature Article

The current feature article is titled Connecticut Valley Controversy by Tracie Harris (posted March 18, 2008).
Tracie Harris interviews the creators of the controversial 2007 holiday sign in Hartford, Connecticut.

Latest News

Summer Solstice Party to be June 21st: Mike Swift will host a Summer Solstice Party at his house on June 21st, 3pm-1am. (Posted May 11, 2008)

ACA to have booth at 2008 Pride Festival: ACA will have a booth at the 2008 Gay & Lesbian Pride Festival, June 14th at Auditorium Shores. (Posted May 11, 2008)

ACA to host National Day of Reason Rally: The ACA will have a Rally, November 1, 2008 at the Capitol to promote reason and church-state separation. (Posted April 30, 2008)

ACA Pub Crawl will be March 7th: ACA members will participate in a pub crawl on March 7th, starting at the Dog & Duck Pub. (Posted February 11, 2008)

Texas Education Agency is "Neutral" on Pseudoscience?: ACA's response to Texas Education Agency's apparent policy of neutrality to Intelligent Design (Posted December 13, 2007)