(December 22, 2013 at 1:40 pm)rasetsu Wrote: It serves to allow otherwise marginalized people, atheists, to get together and share a sense of community and feel not so marginal. I see nothing wrong with that. Plus, it allows atheists to learn from and support each other (not everyone has this forum).
It's more the religious connotations that come with labelling themselves as a 'church' which pisses me off. And the fact they are trying to represent all atheists with this bollocks. Or at least they seem to be.
(December 22, 2013 at 3:44 pm)Raeven Wrote: It's because use of that term has specific meaning to many people -- particularly among the religious. So it gives rise to even more confusion among the religious than already exists. I see no reason to do that.
This. A thousand times this!
It's all the more annoying when these people parade themselves around as rational, intelligent people.
