The Rise of Atheism: Tickets to the Global Atheist Convention are SOLD OUT

[Synnical]

Wish I could afford to travel across the globe to attend.

Yes, there is much snark here.

http://www.atheistconvention.org.au/

-Cindy in Fort Lauderdale

[onager]

1. LOL! "Like a frog in a sock..."

"The number of churchgoers in Australia is about 9% and dwindling, the diversity of spiritual belief is flourishing and atheism is going off like a frog in a sock."

Catherine Deveny
The Age, Melbourne
February 18, 2009

Thanks for posting this. Wish I could get to this one myself.

On edit - story in the local (Oz) media with some interesting background...

...Convention organiser and Atheist Foundation of Australia president David Nicholls said the state government had ''stabbed the people of Victoria in the back'' by not helping, forcing organisers to hire smaller venues...

"We were very annoyed that all three tiers of government refused to assist us," Mr Nicholls said.

He said Canberra bureaucrats said such funding was not part of the portfolio responsibility of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd or his deputy, Julia Gillard, and provided no other advice.

The Victorian Government raised hopes, then suddenly told him "the event has been secured, so you're not getting the money", he said.

The Parliament of the World's Religions, held in Melbourne in December, received $2 million from the federal government and the state government.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/oh-my-god--atheist-convention-sells-out-20100201-n8xz.html

[ihavenobias]

2. Have you tried praying for tickets?

;)