Kelowna Atheists, Skeptics and Humanists Association
Kelowna Atheists, Skeptics and Humanists Association is a non-partisan body that seeks to foster a secular community guided by reason, science, freedom of inquiry, and humanistic values.
We are a community of freethinking people who put on events, workshops, and conferences and work to promote critical thinking and evidence-based reasoning in Kelowna and the Okanagan for greater community and cooperation.
At KASHA we focus on these areas:
1. Human Rights
2. Science
3. Education.
4. Secular Humanism
In all of these areas, we work to promote a scientific and secular humanist life stance, one that challenges established norms and customs and one that believes in the freedom of all individuals to ask important questions about life, nature, and the world around them.
History Statement – KASHA recognizes the long and varied human history of settlement, exploitation, systemic racism, and environmental change over the land that we now call the Okanagan and Canada.
Diversity Statement – KASHA embraces all human diversity that evolution has bestowed upon us. We welcome all genders, sexual orientations, and the beautiful medley of homo sapiens to come sit, discuss and change the world with us.
A Brighter Future – It is only with our focused determination for reasoned and rational change that we will build a better and brighter future for the coming generations.
Governance
Statement of Values and Principles
Janice Selbie – President
Tania Kuehn – Vice President / Secretary
Saturday Sazaran – Treasurer / General Board Member
Jan Goss – General Board Member
Joyce Kunzelman – General Board Member
At the recent Pride festival here in Kelowna, KASHA had a tent for conducting de-baptism and renouncing religion ceremonies. We weren’t sure how people would respond to this invitation of releasing themselves from the shackles of religious belief, but it was a resounding success. Many people came to get de-baptized, or renounce their religion, if […]
From ‘Only Sky’ by Phil Zucherman, March 24, 2023 There have always been non-believers. But for the first time in recorded history, there are now numerous societies with a majority of people who don’t believe in God. According to an analysis of the best internationally-available data by Isabella Kasselstrand, Ryan T. Cragun, and me, published in our […]
When I started becoming aware of secular, atheist, humanist groups here in BC around 2010, I noticed that people would often quote the 4 Horsemen like they were some sort of gods. This group of men consisting of Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Sam Harris were seen as the leaders of the new […]
