Welcome to the Virginia Atheists and Agnostics' website! The Virginia Atheists and Agnostics is a Contracted Independent Organization (CIO) of the University of Virginia. Virginia Atheists and Agnostics was started in 2002 with the purpose of combating the stigma of Atheism at UVA. Since our beginnings our mission has expanded to include promoting secular humanism and the separation of church and state.

What do we do?

In short, we have weekly meetings with a discussion topic and/or presentation and maintain an online, email-based discussion forum. We organize campus events that are social, political, philanthropic, or educational in nature.

What do we believe?

Virginia Atheists and Agnostics do not have a specific set of beliefs that participants must adhere to. Most students who participate in our meetings and activities are atheists, however, many are agnostics, humanists, freethinkers or qualify for more than one of the labels. We have also had regular attendees at meetings who are Christian.

What is our structure?

The only official members of Virginia Atheists and Agnostics are our officers. Thus, we do not have membership dues. We are supported financially through fundraisers, donations and UVA student council funds for CIOs. Students and others participate with us through the activities stated above, weekly meetings, events and our email-based discussion forum. In some sense, our group represents all atheist students at the University of Virginia, and to a lesser extent we represent those students whose beliefs are similar to those of atheists but do not have their own group on grounds.

If you would like to become involved with the Virginia Atheists and Agnostics please contact us, and enjoy browsing the rest of our website!