WELCOME

TO THE JEFFERSON CENTER, A COMMUNITY OF

HUMANISTS, ATHEISTS AND OTHER FREETHINKERS

IN THE ROGUE VALLEY OF SOUTHERN OREGON

WE INVITE YOU to participate in all of our activities.  Please use the "Programs" tab on the left

vertical menu to learn of our educational and social events.  To join The Center, use the "Membership"

tab on the left vertical menu.

"We stand for nothing together...except for the importance of reason, evidence, and

science in understanding the world.

 We hold a common morality that ties society together, and as the more gregarious

subset of the freethought community (the less gregarious are staying home) we also believe

in the importance of coordinated communal activity.

 We'd all like to live in a more rational world, where our leaders made political decisions based on evidence

rather than faith, where secular education was paramount, where we recognized the common humanity

of everyone on the planet and worked to make this world a better one, free of the illusion of

another world beyond."

                                                     ---Paul Zachary (PZ) Myers

UPCOMING PROGRAMS 

MARCH BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP - March 9th at 1 p.m. at The Jefferson Center.  The

group will focus on Victor J. Stenger's New York Times best-selling book God, the Failed Hypothesis:

How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist published by Prometheus Press in 2007. 

 Books are available locally at Bloomsbury Books, mention book group #17.
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THOUGHT FOR THIS MONTH.................. 

           "To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing."                                                                                

                                                ---Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900)

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THE JEFFERSON CENTER IS AN AFFILIATE MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN

HUMANIST ASSOCIATION and AN AFFILIATED LOCAL GROUP OF

THE COUNCIL FOR SECULAR HUMANISM

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The Center is located in the Historic Ashland Armory at 208 Oak Street, Suite 101 Ashland, OR 97520

Office message telephone:  541.488.9450  

THE JEFFERSON CENTER is funded by grants from the Minneapolis Foundation, the City of Ashland Economic and

Cultural Grant program, the Schwab Charitable Trust, from individual donors, and from Members of The Jefferson Center. 

Your contributions are gratefully accepted.  We are a non-profit organization with 501 (c) (3) status under the laws of the

Internal Revenue Service, therefore your contributions are tax-deductible.

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