Freethinking Atheist and Agnostic Kinship

Founded	2007
Type	Service club
Headquarters	Orange County, California
Area Served	California
Purpose	Break Stereotypes, Fight Discrimination
Method	Activism, Community Service
Slogan	Not an Agnostic? Not an Atheist? Not a problem!

The Freethinking Atheist and Agnostic Kinship or FAAK is a Capistrano Valley High School club. The club, created in 2007, has stirred controversy within the Orange County, CA community.[1]

Purpose

Surveys show that Atheists, Agnostics and Freethinkers are the least trusted group of people.[2] The primary purpose of Freethinking Atheist and Agnostic Kinship is to improve this image through activism and community service.

Media attention

The Freethinking Atheist and Agnostic Kinship has been featured in the Orange County Weekly,[3] Orange County Register[4] and national TV's The O'Reilly Factor.[5] In addition, the club has organized several rallies each drawing over 200 picketers.[6] These rallies have landed on the front pages of Orange County Register[7][8] and Los Angeles Times.[9]

Accomplishments

FAAK has brought a local college professor to Capistrano Valley High School.[10]

FAAK was named Club of the Year in 2007-2008 for its activism and excellence in community service.[11]

Notes and references

gollark: For Rust there's serde and a neat bincode thing.

gollark: Did you not think "Hmm, perhaps someone else previously wanted to encode data in an efficient binary format"?

gollark: What are you actually aiming to achieve here versus using some preexisting serialization format?

gollark: You could use protocol buffers, or msgpack/CBOR, or even JSON.

gollark: But... seriously, why are you making your own weird packet format?

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