Music festival's atheist ties stirring controversy

By WISTV.COM
Added: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:00:00 UTC

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CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV/WIS) - The organizers of a Charlotte music festival have made a controversial decision to give the money raised by their event to an organization promoting evolution and atheism.

The Charlotte Pop Fest '09 is a music festival taking place in Charlotte's Myers Park area this weekend. The event features some well-known local and national bands.

Last year, proceeds from the Pop Fest went to an international children's charity. The proceeds from this year's Charlotte Pop Fest will be going to the Richard Dawkins Foundation. Dawkins is one of the best known evolutionists in the world and is also an atheist who wrote a book called The God Delusion.

Dawkins will be speaking at the University of South Carolina in October, in an event jointly sponsored by the Biology department and the atheist group Pastafarians at USC.

Pop Fest organizer James Deem says what he's trying to do is raise awareness for "science and science education."
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