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RE: I went to an atheist "church"
March 13, 2017 at 1:18 am
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(March 12, 2017 at 11:12 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Sunday service and Sunday school for kids...
Hm, for people who supposedly hate religion, they sure do like copying us. 
The way I see it, it's deliberately for atheists who have been raised religious and still have a need for whatever a Sunday service gives them.
No idea what that is, I haven't ever regularly gone to church. But people must get something out of it otherwise they wouldn't go, despite their post-rationalisation of why they do.
So I have no problem with it.
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RE: I went to an atheist "church"
March 13, 2017 at 1:31 am
Again, I will reiterate, just because it is atheist based, does not imply it is predominantly for critical thinkers.
They could be arseholes, bigots, womanisers, you know just like a normal church... 
I dare say that they would also entertain some woo now than then as topics of interest....
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RE: I went to an atheist "church"
March 13, 2017 at 9:30 am
(March 13, 2017 at 1:18 am)Mathilda Wrote: (March 12, 2017 at 11:12 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Sunday service and Sunday school for kids...
Hm, for people who supposedly hate religion, they sure do like copying us.
The way I see it, it's deliberately for atheists who have been raised religious and still have a need for whatever a Sunday service gives them.
No idea what that is, I haven't ever regularly gone to church. But people must get something out of it otherwise they wouldn't go, despite their post-rationalisation of why they do.
So I have no problem with it.
Yeah, some people do use humanist societies to subsidiary for religion like on funerals and weddings. For instance when Isaac Asimov died in 1992 he had a memorial held by Ethical Culture Center where they talked about him and remembered him one last time, something like a one last party in his honor.
We frequently do have discussions with people who claim that atheism is a religion, but then you also have to broaden definition of religion so that any gathering is a religion like astronomy club and the chess team could be religions too.
Also does declaring atheism to be a religion help the case for the existence of a god?
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RE: I went to an atheist "church"
March 13, 2017 at 9:47 am
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For me, religion has claimed ownership of certain human needs. For example, funerals are way to close a door on your grief and say goodbye. The need for it is not a religious one. Nor should a sense of fellowship be seen as purely religious. We are after all pack animals that feel the need to live in communities. If these needs have been met by your religious community in the past andf you leave that community then you will still have those needs.
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RE: I went to an atheist "church"
March 14, 2017 at 5:25 pm
Also in the Humanist Hub building there are private offices that have professional therapists you can talk to.
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RE: I went to an atheist "church"
March 15, 2017 at 10:57 am
(March 14, 2017 at 5:25 pm)Tea Earl Grey Hot Wrote: Also in the Humanist Hub building there are private offices that have professional therapists you can talk to.
Yeah, I spoke to one!
HAHAHA See what I did there? Hub? Spoke?
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RE: I went to an atheist "church"
March 15, 2017 at 11:06 am
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vorlon13 Wrote:I can't imagine the Unitarian Universalist church I belonged to in the late 70's early 80s would have the slightest problem with atheist members.
And even then, the extremely non-standard theology would scarcely chafe most of the atheists here today. The pastor had a unique view of God: go break a tea cup. Now tape it back together. That's God.
they had so diluted the 'message' and embraced so many different doctrines from around the world that the net sum was zero, LOL.
To their credit, they were very supportive for any members going through anything adverse or untoward. Just totally non/poly/multi/un-doctrinated in how they do it.
We did a survey some years ago at the UU I attend and it came out about 50% Humanists, 25% atheists (who were probably mostly in the Humanist camp). About half considered themselves some kind of theist, but that included Christians, Jews, Buddhists, and Pagans.
Catholic_Lady Wrote:Sunday service and Sunday school for kids...
Hm, for people who supposedly hate religion, they sure do like copying us.
You don't own meeting and socializing and you don't own Sunday.
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