CFI Communities
CFI Communities are groups of freethinkers, rationalists, skeptics, humanists, atheists, and agnostics who come together for many reasons. First and foremost, CFI Communities offer support, educational programming, and social activities for nonreligious and skeptical people. (Religious people are welcome, too, of course.)
Second, CFI Communities are part of the Center for Inquiry's broader educational and outreach initiatives. To this end, CFI Communities host numerous local events, discussion groups, lectures, and educational programs relating to CFI's primary research areas: Religion, Ethics, and Society; Paranormal and Pseudoscience Claims; and Medicine and Health.
Local CFI Communities also offer nonbelievers and skeptics an opportunity to put their principles into practice by joining other rationalists to bring about positive changes in society. CFI Community members volunteer within their broader community, participate in local activism campaigns, assist with regional campus outreach, and work to promote science and the secular outlook in their state, county, town, and schools.
CFI Communities draw upon volunteers and Center for Inquiry Friends and supporters who are enthusiastic about the CFI agenda and wish to take part in our movement. Our members are living proof that there are good, ethical alternatives to religious and paranormal worldviews. In this time of rising religiosity, anti-intellectualism, and political turmoil, these rationalists and freethinkers have joined together to protect civil liberties, defend reason, and to work toward increasing scientific literacy and a more humanistic society.
