Word is that 1000 of the 2500 tickets available for the Global Atheist Convention to be held next March in Melbourne have sold. That’s 40% of tickets available, gone in three weeks – at this rate the conference will be fully booked out before Christmas.
So with the conference looking to be fully booked well ahead of schedule, the silence on funding from the Victorian government (eager to fund the Parliament of World religions) gets more telling by the minute.
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Jimmy Swaggart, eat your heart out. At $150 to attend the Sunday session, it seems this is a convention for the Moet and Chandon atheists not mere chardonnay or beer atheists from the great unwashed. Unlike the fundamentalists, pentecostals and zealots, I can be an atheist for nothing. Get a grip you guys – are you atheists or capitalist book-sellers with big egos?
I am going to have to agree with Sean on this one. This convention is cheap compared to most.
In comparison to the last thing I went to, which was work related and also sponsored. It cost around $1,700 for 3 days (and that was the early bird price and is not including flights and accommodation).
Conferences / conventions are not the cheapest things to run and without grants and sponsorship most would not go ahead. Unlike other events like the “Parliament of the World's Religions” the “Global Atheist Convention” is not sponsored or government funded.