North Texas Church of Free Thought Forum

We had birthday cake at our February 3rd service celebrating 24 years since the very first NTCOF service on February 5th of 1995! The service included a discussion about the Periodic Table of the Elements which is 150 years old this year. It may sound like a dry subject but it revolutionized chemist...

Our January service was on PROPHECY (definitely a religious subject, right?) - that we called THE FUTURE: PROMISE OR THREAT? We viewed a couple of videos on what was expected to be in the news in 2019 including: Powered-clothing … probably not, but the company making it is working hard to make itsel...

Our December service may sound as if it were a “downer,” especially for those who love the winter holiday season. But it was intended to quesiton the whole point and purpose of it, and of all such holidays, all rituals and cultural practices and even of life itself. It was a melding of “the meaning ...

NTCOF's November 4th service began with a consideration of remarks by sociologist of religion Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1916-2000) who from 1964 to 1973 was director of Harvard's Center For The Study of World Religions. Smith said: I'm not saying that religion is a good thing. I'm saying that it's a g...

Our October 7th 2018 service included: 1) Introductory remarks on what we mean by “Freethought,” how thinking differs from belief, and why it is so much more important than belief. We noted a few other things that had happened on October 7th including the kiloton or so of explosive energy released o...

Our September 2nd 2018 service featured Guest Speakers Rex Burks and Owen Younger who returned to present on “Countering the Five Christian Claims.” They listed these generic claims as: 1) God is real. Miracles are real. 2) The Bible is a divine, perfect book. 3) God's plans are beautiful. 4) Christ...

Our August 5th 2018 service was a presentation and discussion of the subject of EPISTEMOLOGY, which is the philosophical subject of knowledge. We considered the fact that what we suppose we know is a widely-varied assortment of things that we have personal and direct knowledge of, that we are told b...

Our July 1st 2018 service featured our usual introductory review of the idea of our “atheist church.” On this occasion the emphasis was put on the fact that Freethought is not “faith-based,” an adjective that is now often used as a synonym for the adjective "religious." Of course, this serves very w...

Our June 3rd 2018 service began by comparing the general outlook of: Believers, who believe (so they say!) that our lives are infinitesimal when compared to an eternal afterlife, but that what happens in that evanescent blink of an eye determines whether we spend forever in heavenly bliss of hellish...

Our May 6th 2018 service featured a consideration of a classic book on the subject of religion and its personal manifestations and meaning. This was William James', the American physician, psychologist and philosopher's 1902 Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature . This is a coll...