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Atheists & Agnostics

Voltaire2

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4. Eh. If some atheists want to congregate and call

Reply to NeoGreen (Reply #3)

Fri Jan 19, 2024, 08:30 AM

Jan 2024

their group an atheist church, it’s fine with me.

Also ‘normal’ applied to people’s beliefs or lack thereof is determined by cultural ‘norms’ not by what one thinks people ought to believe or not believe. We live in a massively theistic culture. Theism is normal.

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What is an Athiest Church? [View all] NJCher Jan 2024 OP

The Unitarian Universalist chuch here is very into conservvation and doing good works Maraya1969 Jan 2024 #1

Where is this? It sounds just like the small UU congregation... 3catwoman3 Jan 2024 #2

Fort Myers FL Maraya1969 Jan 2024 #7

Sure but Unitarianism is a Christian Protestant Voltaire2 Jan 2024 #5

I have never heard them talk about any God. Maybe others are like that but the one in my town isn't. Maraya1969 Jan 2024 #6

There are no 'Atheist Churches'... NeoGreen Jan 2024 #3

Eh. If some atheists want to congregate and call Voltaire2 Jan 2024 #4

True... NeoGreen Jan 2024 #8

While I agree for the most part that what other people do is none of my business Warpy Jan 2024 #9

'St.' Paul (Saul of Tarsus) used the Greek word ekklesia for church. pandr32 Jan 2024 #10

An oxymoron? niyad Jan 2024 #11

A contradiction in terms. DavidDvorkin Jan 2024 #12

Spending the year dead for tax reasons? SomewhereInTheMiddle Feb 2024 #13

The term :"Church" translates to a place of worship for organized religion. msfiddlestix Feb 2024 #14

I'm puzzled how someone who is an agnostic could be anti-religion. My understanding is that an agnostic believes Martin68 Mar 2024 #15

I'm anti-religion, not "anti-god". A HUGE distinction with a significant difference msfiddlestix Mar 2024 #16

OK, I get it, and agree with you, although I've always added "organized" before the religion part because religion Martin68 Mar 2024 #17

If they had psychedelic churches Mr.Bill Mar 2024 #18