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(July 4, 2015 at 1:39 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: Oh, hello hello everyone!
I'm a middle-aged, female, tattooed lesbian atheist.   And I'm also the organist for a Catholic Church.

I need intelligent conversation!!!     
I was raised Southern Baptist.  (Yeah, I know, YIKES!)  AND I was stupid enough to get music degrees in college.  (Double yikes!)
It's very hard for a self-employed musician to survive without a church job.  But you know what they say: if you want to become
an atheist, just work for a church.  It's not very long before you think "does he even know what he just said?" having to listen to
sermons and bible readings every weekend. Not to mention that church workers are usually JUST AWFUL to each other.

I might quote that old button "my karma ran over my dogma"!  It did.

I'm happy to announce that I have recently acquired full-time gainful employment, and will be financially able to escape from 
the loony bin soon.  

I'm a huge fan of Sagan, Hitchens, deGrasse Tyson, Hawking, Dawkins, Kelly . . . if you can suggest any good books or great
groups to join, I would appreciate it!   Good to "meet" you!                   drfuzzy

Two undermentioned but, to me two of the most important books in science and atheism come from the late Victor Stenger, "God The Failed Hypothesis" and " The New Atheism".

(July 4, 2015 at 4:23 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Welcome!

I, too, was raised as a Southern Baptist.

I hope you get to play a lot of great music in the church where you work. I remember going to a church service once because I knew the soprano (also an atheist) they hired for their special music that day. The music was glorious. It was good enough to make sitting through the sermon worthwhile.

Nah. Catholic organ music sucks. The protestants got all the good organ composers.

(July 6, 2015 at 2:46 am)Minimalist Wrote:

(July 4, 2015 at 4:23 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Welcome!

I, too, was raised as a Southern Baptist.

I hope you get to play a lot of great music in the church where you work.  I remember going to a church service once because I knew the soprano (also an atheist) they hired for their special music that day.  The music was glorious.  It was good enough to make sitting through the sermon worthwhile.

Nah.  Catholic organ music sucks.  The protestants got all the good organ composers.

I thought that was Jeffery Dahmer. Oh wait, when you said organs.......Oh never mind.

(July 6, 2015 at 2:46 am)Minimalist Wrote:

(July 4, 2015 at 4:23 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Welcome!

I, too, was raised as a Southern Baptist.

I hope you get to play a lot of great music in the church where you work.  I remember going to a church service once because I knew the soprano (also an atheist) they hired for their special music that day.  The music was glorious.  It was good enough to make sitting through the sermon worthwhile.

Nah.  Catholic organ music sucks.  The protestants got all the good organ composers.

Oh yeah, Bach was a protestant, and...

But do Catholics refuse to play Bach in churches?  If so, I guess there is no reason whatsoever to go to a Catholic church.

(July 5, 2015 at 1:22 am)Brian37 Wrote:

(July 4, 2015 at 1:39 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: Oh, hello hello everyone!
I'm a middle-aged, female, tattooed lesbian atheist.   And I'm also the organist for a Catholic Church.

I need intelligent conversation!!!     
I was raised Southern Baptist.  (Yeah, I know, YIKES!)  AND I was stupid enough to get music degrees in college.  (Double yikes!)
It's very hard for a self-employed musician to survive without a church job.  But you know what they say: if you want to become
an atheist, just work for a church.  It's not very long before you think "does he even know what he just said?" having to listen to
sermons and bible readings every weekend. Not to mention that church workers are usually JUST AWFUL to each other.

I might quote that old button "my karma ran over my dogma"!  It did.

I'm happy to announce that I have recently acquired full-time gainful employment, and will be financially able to escape from 
the loony bin soon.  

I'm a huge fan of Sagan, Hitchens, deGrasse Tyson, Hawking, Dawkins, Kelly . . . if you can suggest any good books or great
groups to join, I would appreciate it!   Good to "meet" you!                   drfuzzy

Middle age? Then you should be old enough to recognize my avatar of a band I am a huge fan of.

I love ABBA!! I have all their albums.

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(July 6, 2015 at 11:57 am)Pyrrho Wrote:

(July 6, 2015 at 2:46 am)Minimalist Wrote: Nah.  Catholic organ music sucks.  The protestants got all the good organ composers.

Oh yeah, Bach was a protestant, and...

But do Catholics refuse to play Bach in churches?  If so, I guess there is no reason whatsoever to go to a Catholic church.

Ha! No, Bach is very welcome in Catholic Churches.