Internet Infidels

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Internet Infidels, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization. Its primary purpose is to maintain the Secular Web, an Internet-based library of resources pertaining to nontheistic viewpoints, including agnosticism, atheism, freethought, humanism, and secularism. The Secular Web was originally hosted on the Texas A&M University servers. It is a part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library.

1 Mission
2 Secular Web features
3 Members
4 Trivia
5 External links

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Mission

Richard Carrier, former Editor in Chief of the Secular Web, states that "... the mission of the Internet Infidels has always been to defend and promote Metaphysical Naturalism". The mission statement also includes two secondary purposes. First, Internet Infidels seeks to foster a tolerant and free intellectual atmosphere wherein evidence and reason are the criteria by which claims, especially religious ones, are evaluated. Second, the organization seeks to uphold human dignity through an honest and compassionate pursuit of the truth.

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Secular Web features

Library: The library is the home of thousands of articles on nontheism. It contains both historical and modern works arguing for nontheism or against a particular religious belief, usually Christianity. Also included are transcripts of formal debates.

Kiosk: The kiosk contains the agora (see below) and also has a featured article.

Agora: The agora is where readers may submit opinion pieces on any topic of interest to nontheists. This includes things like book reviews and essays on church-state separation, skepticism, etc.

Forum: The Internet Infidels Discussion Board, also known as IIDB, is a message board where users interact directly with one another to debate and discuss various topics, academic, casual, and personal. As of March 23, 2006, the community has over 22,000 members and more than 3,200,000 posts.

News Wire: The News Wire links to daily news articles dealing with issues relevant to nontheism.

The Secular Web also sells books and videos in partnership with Amazon.com, features a book of the month, and offers news on events (such as debates and conventions), contests, scholarships, and many other resources.

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Members

The following are some of the volunteers who help keep Internet Infidels and the Secular Web running.

Honorary President: Brett Lemoine

Presidents Emeritus: Jeffery Lowder, James Still, Amanda Chesworth, Jeff Lucas, Jim Lippard

Board of Directors: Clark Adams (President), Scott Wittman (Vice President), Donald Morgan (Feedback, Kiosk, & Site Editor), Kyle Gerkin (Newsletter Editor), Janice Rael (Publicity Director), Michael Moore (Member at Large)

Executive Director & Scholarly Paper Editor: Keith Augustine

Editors: Kyle Gerkin, James Still, Jimi Fosdick, Doug McGee, Toto Katz

News Wire Editor: AJ Milne

DCMA (Digital Millenium Copyright Agent): Jim Lippard

Treasurer: Jeff Lucas

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Trivia

IIDB's Freethought Humor, Jokes, Etc. forum is the point of origination for the "If you have set yourself on fire do not run" meme, the creation of alternate interpretations of the ready.gov images.

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