RELIGION, ETHICS, AND SOCIETY CLUB
Schedule for 2009

Date Topic/ Theme/ Book title Author Presenter

January 24, 2009 Philosophy of Ethics of Albert Camus,

Maximilian Kolbe, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer Tom Brucia

February 28, 2009 Thomas Jefferson:
Life, Philosophy, and Religion Dr. Louis Daily

From the lecture of prof. Kybala, SMU

March 28, 2009 The History of Slavery

from Egyptian Antiquity to the Year 2008 Sid George

April 25, 2009 "Sex or Symbol" Catherine Jones Dr. Ed Barr

May 23, 2009 Spinoza Dr. Louis Daily

June 27, 2009 "Secular Conscience" Austin Dacey Jim Knierien

July 25, 2009 Update on Soros Bill Fricks


August 22, 2009 TBA Daniel Johson

September 26 2009 Bioethics Yuri Shif


October 24, 2009


November 28, 2009


December 19 2009 SOLSTICE PARTY

Saturday, May 23, 2009 Meeting.
Dr. Louis Daily will present a program on Spinoza.

Tentative Schedule for 2007/2008

Tentative Schedule for 2007/2008

Date	Topic/Theme/Book	Author	Reviewer
3/24/07	Introduction to Islam		Tom Brucia
4/28/07
5/26/07	Perception of Christianity in the 1st Century by Hellenes		Jerry Harris
6/23/07	Evolutionary Psychology of Religion	Steven Pinker	Art Fay
7/28/07	Humanist Ethics		Robert Finch
8/25/07	The Varieties of Religious Experience	William James	Tom Brucia
9/22/07	Dialectics of Secularization	J. Habermas & J. Ratzinger	Ron Titus
10/27/07	Porphyry and Julian the Apostate vs Christians and neo-Platonism Numenius and Justin Martyr : how Christianity Adopted Greek Metaphysics	based on a research paper by Marian Hillar	Jerry Harris & Marian Hillar
11/24/07	Psychology of Atheism according to the third essay in Geneology of Morals	Frederick Nietzsche	Marian Hillar
12/15/07	<Winter Solstice Celebration>
1/26/08	Purpose for Your Life	Abraham Maslow & Lyle Simpson	Sara Simon
2/23/08	The Truth Behind the New Atheism	David Marshall	Carine Grosjean
3/22/08	The Contribution of Kurt Vonnegut to Humanism	Kurt Vonnegut	Tom Brucia
4/26/08	Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence	Hector Avalos	Jim Knierien
5/24/08	Introduction to Islam		Sid George
6/28/08	Play: Prometheus Bound	Sid George	Sid George
7/26/08	The Enlightenment & the American Constitution	Historical Documents	Ariel Thomann
8/23/08	The Black Swan	Nassim Talib	Tom Brucia
9/27/08	Ancient Mystery Religions as the Source of Christianity		Sid George
10/25/08	Judaism and Herod the Great		Sid George
11/22/08	The Question of the Soul	Francis Crick	Rusty Lyon
12/27/08	SOLSTICE PARTY
1/24/09	Ethics Philosophy of Albert Camus, Maximilian Kolbe, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer		Tom Brucia