Atheism is a religion.

[ignoramus]

I just find it weird that we need a common place to celebrate the "default".
The whole world is the default. Those who want to believe in weird shit should go to a special place and congregate with others as they do now in church.

There must be another angle to it......

I have around 400 index cards with plans for a congregational "church" (the building, not the dogma) where intellectuals gather. It's a really fun thought: a sort of meeting place where people donate to learn from scientists and musicians; where there is a daycare where education is important; where people can just get-together and do charitable things, etc.

I probably won't carry it out, due to my gnarly ADD, but I don't see anything wrong with something like that. No dogma necessary.

ETA: I wouldn't call it a "church", though. Not in a million years.

Reb, what you describe sounds great!
Why can't they meet at places like this?

Reb, is there any religious oversight in those places at all?