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response because we were an agnostic
and atheist group, and we weren’t
afraid to admit it,” he said.
“On the one hand, we had people who
saw our fliers and were interested in
discussion,” Berry said. “And on the
other hand, there were believers who
thought they had to save our souls.”
The group has been a major target of
discrimination and vandalism from
some students.
For example, Berry said, when the
group posts fliers in the Blocker Build
ing, it is not uncommon to find the ones
put up at one end of the building torn
down by the time they are posted at the
other end.
He also said that when the group
sells T-shirts in the MSC, believers will
often tell members to disband it be
cause atheism is wrong and that ques
tioning other’s beliefs is harmful.
When Berry was president, he even
received some death threats on his an
swering machine.
But Berry said he believes confronta-
tionalists represent a minority on cam
pus, and more people tend to express
only a passing distaste for the group.
“The extent to which we’ve had fliers
torn down is not unique, but notable,”
he said. Berry said discrimination
against the group has died down.
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said, “and we get fewer people who
want to go to the meetings for the sake
of converting us.
In general, people who have talked to
us have tended to have more of a posi
tive reaction.”
Undeterred by negative reaction, the
AASG continues to offer discussion to
those interested through its noncon-
frontational, nonevangelistic approach.
“The whole point of the AASG is to
show that we (atheists and agnostics)
are normal, everyday people,” he said.
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