RE: I went to an atheist "church"
March 12, 2017 at 10:57 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2017 at 10:58 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(March 12, 2017 at 10:05 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Well, that certainly sounds different.
Questions:
What did you/they sing?
Did they have any rituals?
Did they have pictures of atheists around that they admire?
Did the poetry suck (not a fan of poetry, can you tell)? (I can tolerate the occasional limerick)
What was the speakers topic?
Do you think you will be going back, on Sunday or one of the weekly's?
If you go back will you up date us, please?
They had a singer with a guitar lead us through two short songs that she wrote herself.
The closest thing to a ritual was that they have everyone form small groups with the people immediately surrounding them to discuss what the speaker said for a few minutes. They also do a question and answer session with the speaker.
I don't know anything about poetry and I actually daydreamed the entire way through the poetry part (I was really tired from little sleep the night before) so I can't remember it really.
Speaker this week was the relationship advice columnist for the Boston Globe. She spoke about her experience writing for the column and mentioned some interesting observations about the questions she gets and the responses she receives from her readers. They have a different speaker each week. There doesn't seem to be an equivalent of a "pastor" in this group.
I'll probably be doing their Sunday groups at least. I'm mainly going for socializing. All my current friends in Boston are very liberal and progressive at least but at the same time they're all still fairly religious. Not knowing people in real life who I can relate to atheist to atheist gets frustrating after a while.
Of course I'll update you all.
(March 12, 2017 at 9:49 pm)ignoramus Wrote: 2 questions. Do they want your money? And do they wear funny hats?
If not, then it can't be a church...
I can't remember if they asked for donations but they ask for volunteers.
No funny hats unfortunately. I'll suggest that.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
