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Formerly known as the Free Thought Alliance, Atheists Agnostics and Others is the renamed continuation of the UNT student group. 

Its mission is to challenge conceptions, promote tolerance, encourage skepticism, and a foster better general understanding of secular philosophy and the sciences. Most meetings are discussion-based, with occasional direction by an officer in charge of the meeting. The group's style of meetings is very egalitarian, and lecture formats are often eschewed in favor of group discussion and participation.

History

Atheists Agnostics and Others, under its former title the Freethought Alliance, started in fall of 2006 as a response to UNT's previous lack of any such organization. Meetings were originally held in The Tomato on Sundays, though sometimes on campus for guest lectures. The group's meetings were held up by excessive attention to bylaws and a lack of separate officer meetings, and the group dissolved for a time in the spring of 2007.

The FTA was reformed on campus in the fall of 2007 with some of the same members and some new ones and has been a continuous presence on campus since. Its current mission statement, meeting structure, officer organization, and mission statement were created and solidified during the fall of 2008.

Volunteer Activity

The Freethought Alliance's membership actively volunteer under the FTA name. It has volunteered in the past with Keep Denton Beautiful. They also adopted a highway during the Spring semester of 2010. The adopted stretch of highways sits two miles north of loop 288 along FM 2164. The FTA pick up trash along this highway 4 times a year.