Atheist "church" in London.

[naimless]

So people who don't believe in something specifically can get together to enjoy the experience of not doing anything particularly with each other?

Well that is essentially what this forum is and it is also what prevents me from attaching the atheist label to myself.

The word has varying definitions to other people, even if I don't have them.

The world is fucked. No one has a fucking clue what is going on. Tired of waiting on us all to just agree on that and legalise hookers and drugs...

MAKE POVERTY HISTORY

CHEAPER DRUGS NOW

Lols... atheist church... it's over guys, we've lost it. Society failed. Just give me a cardboard box by the sea and a stray dog, please.

[Something completely different]

I just hate people.

[Zone]

If they want to make "atheism" into a religion it's been done before.

http://www.religionfacts.com/a-z-religio...eanism.htm

[naimless]

Is there anything that the Greeks didn't do?

Seems to me we are in a worse off place than 300 BC.

[Zone]

The worlds very first computer was made in ancient Greece as well. It ran on clockwork and tracked the course of heavenly bodies, the year and the seasons.



They weren't too far from reaching an equivalent our Enlightenment era.

[Confused Ape]

I'm not against the idea of atheists having a get together like this but I wish they'd found somewhere other than a deconsecrated church and chosen some kind of name for themselves. It's difficult enough maintaining that atheism isn't a religion without that.

[naimless]

QUICK, TO ANCIENT GREECE, COMRADES, FOLLOW ME...

We must leave our church in London behind.

We shall bury it as a practical joke for future archaeologists.

[Cyberman]

I can't say I'm against the idea - to be honest I've had thoughts of a similar thing myself, more a sort of hive of free thought and education, if ever I won big on the Lottery. The odds against that are probably higher than usual, however, since I don't actually play the thing. No, the only red flag I have is the inevitable crowing demonstrated in the article, as in "Does it feel a bit like a new religion?" But since that stuff is in the mind of the beholder, it's just a matter of perception and thus their problem; except inasmuch as we'll end up fielding all that crap.

[rexbeccarox]

I actually have about 250 index cards' worth of ideas regarding starting a "congregation" of sorts. I think the only thing, really, stopping me is the struggle with removing religion from the idea of church. I'm sick of defending my non-belief to the religious as not a religion.

My idea is sort of like a church: membership-based, donation-run, community, charity. But, there would be heavy emphases on science, music, and education in general, along with other fun stuff, such as pot lucks, beer tastings, and comedy. And no supernatural stuff unless it's a class about fiction.

There are people like me out there, I know, who really like church, but could do without the woo and bigotry that tend to follow religion around.

[Zone]

We can adhere to sacred Epicurean doctrines such as the of the "Tetrapharmakos"

"Don't fear god,
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get, and
What is terrible is easy to endure."

Epicureans would engrave this on hand mirriors and haircombs and such.

Apparently Julias Ceasar leaned toward Epicureanism and rejected the idea of an afterlife and Constantine the Great (founder of the Roman Catholic Church as a state religion) gave it his seal of approval as well. So there's an ancient hertiage here. But to be honest all I'm really doing is rejecting claims that aren't based on evidence of beyond flimsy eyewitness testimony and "feelings" about something.