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unhappycamper

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Wed Aug 13, 2014, 09:18 AM Aug 2014

Peter Foster: Inside one of the U.S. Bible Belt’s growing number of atheist ‘churches’

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/08/12/peter-foster-inside-one-of-the-u-s-bible-belts-growing-number-of-atheist-churches/



Peter Foster: Inside one of the U.S. Bible Belt’s growing number of atheist ‘churches’
Peter Foster, Special to National Post | August 12, 2014 6:35 AM ET

Viewed from the outside, the pointy-roofed building in a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee deep in the heart of America’s Bible Belt, looks very much like a church.

And stepping inside, where a congregation is swaying along to music, listening to sermons and discussing ways to help their local community, it sounds very much like a church too.

There is, however, one rather fundamental missing ingredient that sets this congregation apart from the hundreds of others turning out to worship this Sunday morning in Nashville: this is a church without God.

~snip~

Started in London in January 2013 by a pair of British stand-up comedians, Sunday Assembly offers a church experience but without the “God part” and, according to organizers, it is starting to catch on in America.
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Peter Foster: Inside one of the U.S. Bible Belt’s growing number of atheist ‘churches’ (Original Post) unhappycamper Aug 2014 OP
I'm so glad to hear about this movement. If by chance it really started to spread in the south, loudsue Aug 2014 #1

loudsue

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1. I'm so glad to hear about this movement. If by chance it really started to spread in the south,
Wed Aug 13, 2014, 10:18 AM
Aug 2014

there might be hope for this place.

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