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RE: Atheist Churches
January 28, 2017 at 3:59 am (This post was last modified: January 28, 2017 at 4:00 am by ignoramus.)
Did you just insult this forum?
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RE: Atheist Churches
January 28, 2017 at 5:12 am (This post was last modified: January 28, 2017 at 5:13 am by ComradeMeow.)
What we really need is to do as the greeks do and bring philosophy into praxis. Reenergize Platonic thought, Nietzsche and Pythagoreanism. Imagine claiming the grand masjida, temples and churches and shipping the religious relics to museums where they belong and using this grand building as public places of philosophy. 

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A masjid like this can be ours one day. I find it odd that atheists and secularists cannot realize the benefit of claiming beauty despite its religious affiliations. I can find beauty in Islam despite being a former Muslim and can only feel joy in the thought of replacing religion with what should have taken its place already. There is no shame in secularizing religion and collapsing it only to replace it with proper philosophical thought and livelihood.
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RE: Atheist Churches
January 28, 2017 at 5:22 am
(January 28, 2017 at 5:12 am)ComradeMeow Wrote: I find it odd that atheists and secularists cannot realize the benefit of claiming beauty despite its religious affiliations.

This is a bad generalization. How many atheist artists have you asked about this? My favorite period of art is baroque, which started with the Catholic church. The sculptures where especially fantastic. I can appreciate the artistic talent of an artist without needing to care for the religious background involved.

As far as the rest of your post is concerned, philosophy isn't really my thing. I'll leave that to the philosophers.
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#34
RE: Atheist Churches
January 28, 2017 at 9:10 am
(January 28, 2017 at 5:12 am)ComradeMeow Wrote: What we really need is to do as the greeks do and bring philosophy into praxis.

Not sure the Klingons are into philosophy all that much.
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#35
RE: Atheist Churches
January 28, 2017 at 10:39 am
(January 28, 2017 at 3:45 am)Cephus Wrote:
(January 27, 2017 at 5:33 pm)Mr Greene Wrote: Not interested.
If you want to join a club that's up to you.

Same here, I have zero interest in a mutual masturbation society.

Wait. There's a mutual masturbation society? Where?! Angel
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RE: Atheist Churches
January 28, 2017 at 2:09 pm
Every street corner ... It's got a cross on it.
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RE: Atheist Churches
January 28, 2017 at 2:38 pm
(January 28, 2017 at 10:39 am)Mamacita Wrote: Wait. There's a mutual masturbation society? Where?!  Angel

Well, there's this club Sam and I used to go to...
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RE: Atheist Churches
January 28, 2017 at 2:54 pm
(January 28, 2017 at 10:39 am)Mamacita Wrote:
(January 28, 2017 at 3:45 am)Cephus Wrote: Same here, I have zero interest in a mutual masturbation society.

Wait. There's a mutual masturbation society? Where?!  Angel

I know. I have been in loads of churches. None have this feature. Its all about kneeling.
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RE: Atheist Churches
January 28, 2017 at 3:32 pm (This post was last modified: January 28, 2017 at 3:34 pm by ComradeMeow.)
(January 28, 2017 at 9:10 am)Stimbo Wrote:
(January 28, 2017 at 5:12 am)ComradeMeow Wrote: What we really need is to do as the greeks do and bring philosophy into praxis.

Not sure the Klingons are into philosophy all that much.

Who are Klingons?
(January 28, 2017 at 5:22 am)Jesster Wrote:
(January 28, 2017 at 5:12 am)ComradeMeow Wrote: I find it odd that atheists and secularists cannot realize the benefit of claiming beauty despite its religious affiliations.

This is a bad generalization. How many atheist artists have you asked about this? My favorite period of art is baroque, which started with the Catholic church. The sculptures where especially fantastic. I can appreciate the artistic talent of an artist without needing to care for the religious background involved.

As far as the rest of your post is concerned, philosophy isn't really my thing. I'll leave that to the philosophers.

Astonishing, philosophy is the crux of why atheism has always been given life into any culture. The absurdity of gods and religions is always realized by philosophy and its guiding hand throughout the centuries. I would call you a heretic and blasphemer but I always forget I am not religious Big Grin
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RE: Atheist Churches
January 28, 2017 at 3:35 pm (This post was last modified: January 28, 2017 at 11:05 pm by Cyberman.)
I wish there was some kind of networked computer database, a 'web' of information if you will, that one could 'search' with an 'engine' of sorts.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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