(December 31, 2013 at 5:28 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: Except that it isn't?It is *every* aspect of 'church', but absent the overarching Master. It is a church, still... but it has been abandoned by its lord, and now his children live in the house he built as their own lords.
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It does sound like one on the surface, but it's really not. Were they to have a mosque's setup without God, then it would *still* be a mosque in every way sans-'spiritually'. What would we call it? A nonspiritual mosque is applicable... atheist's mosque would also be.
Tell me what differs such that the terms 'church' and 'atheist' fundamentally cannot be joined as an atheist's church.
What definition of church are you using?
Oxford English dictionary:
Quote:noun
a building used for public Christian worship:
Highlighted the words Christian and worship.
Free Dictionary:
Quote:1. A building for public, especially Christian worship.
Again, quoted the words Christian and worship.
Macmillan Dictionary:
Quote:a building that Christians go to in order to worship.
Quoted, yet again, the words CHRISTIAN and WORSHIP.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Church
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini...ish/church
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/di...can/church
Please explain to me how using any definition of the word "Church" in the context these atheists are using it, is anything but an oxymoron. These people are not Christian and they do not worship
Again, and this'll be the last time I say it on this damn thread, their use of the term "church" is downright retarded.
