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Why Atheists Are Starting Their Own Global Church
Yahoo News ^ | September 23, 2013 | Peter Weber

Posted on 09/23/2013 12:43:28 PM PDT by lbryce

Pope Francis is significantly upping the Catholic Church's buzz quotient, but another congregation is hoping to take America (and other countries) by storm. Like Methodism and Episcopalianism, the Sunday Assembly is a British import, but with a difference: This church doesn't believe in God. It's motto is "live better, help often, and wonder more." It's striving to be a global atheist religion.

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To: nickcarraway

I thought scientology was pantheistic?


21 posted on 09/23/2013 1:01:32 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Honorary Serb

It’s actually good for believers if they establish their church. Because they want to make their religion the state religion, and it will be harder to do so, if they acknowledge it’s a denomination, so to speak.


22 posted on 09/23/2013 1:01:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

*Next they’ll be evangelizing.*

They already are.
They’ve been preaching the State Religion of Atheism for
the past 40 years in public schools.

They have been “evangelizing” through billboards, bus signs and Starbucks cups.

They want to drag as many people to Hell with them as possible without even knowing who directs their steps and whispers lies into their ears.

“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind”
Romans 1:28


23 posted on 09/23/2013 1:03:47 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

More judgmental for sure. Not sure about piety.


24 posted on 09/23/2013 1:03:48 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Er)
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To: PATRIOT1876

Google the ‘atheist bus campaign’. Richard Dawkins is financing it.


25 posted on 09/23/2013 1:07:25 PM PDT by Gideon7
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To: lbryce

Think Globally, Act Locally.


26 posted on 09/23/2013 1:07:44 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: GraceG

You better believe in Atheism or else you’re going to heaven.


27 posted on 09/23/2013 1:08:00 PM PDT by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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To: willyd

You better believe in Atheism or else you’re going to heaven.

I want my 72 virgins when I get into heaven, because I am a complete nerd and want some nerds to play DnD board games with....


28 posted on 09/23/2013 1:11:31 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: lbryce
It's motto is "live better, help often, and wonder more."

Because..? If there is nothing to live better for, or if I don't "feel" like helping, or if there's nothing to wonder about, why should I do it? Just because?

29 posted on 09/23/2013 1:19:11 PM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: lbryce

They will worship themselves. This whole “church” is a platform for narcissists.

Most likely services (assuming anyone will attend, since they’ll be too busy doing their own thing) will resemble the EST-like pop-psych groups of the 70s, with the emphasis on loving the self. I can’t even imagine a community with any of these people.


30 posted on 09/23/2013 1:20:25 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: lbryce

The word “Church” refers to the body of congregants gathered in the name of Jesus. So, how can atheists have a church?


31 posted on 09/23/2013 1:28:53 PM PDT by FrdmLvr
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To: lbryce

Why not? Here’s a list of anarchist organizations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anarchist_organizations
Does no one know the word oxymoron? How about irony?


32 posted on 09/23/2013 1:30:35 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: nickcarraway

I always thought a name that sounds like a leaf spring snapping to be kinda funny.

Spong Spang Spung isn’t the only atheist Anglican bishop, BTW.

Atheism is a religion just like the others it professes to despise. Atheists rail against a Deity they claim does not even exist. Go figure.

Maybe this new “church” will erect a statue of their Great Flying Spaghetti-O Monster or whatever. Screw ‘em.


33 posted on 09/23/2013 1:30:44 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: lbryce

What’s wrong with the UUs?


34 posted on 09/23/2013 1:32:59 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"Next they’ll be evangelizing."

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If they show up at our door, (*whisper*) we're not going to answer. Heh....

35 posted on 09/23/2013 1:38:44 PM PDT by hummingbird (Don't be afraid of the big words.)
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To: lbryce

Why not? Half the churches out there are primarily social clubs oriented more around pot lucks than God. So what’s a guy that likes potato salad but isn’t into the whole God thing to do?


36 posted on 09/23/2013 1:38:51 PM PDT by discostu (This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.)
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To: Tenacious 1
"...a belief in superior alien beings..."

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Tom Cruise...........and we will be made to watch ALL of his movies - over and over and over........

37 posted on 09/23/2013 1:43:07 PM PDT by hummingbird (Don't be afraid of the big words.)
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To: MoochPooch
"This whole “church” is a platform for narcissists."

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Just made for Obama.

Narcissist that he is, you know he'll want to sign up.

38 posted on 09/23/2013 1:59:49 PM PDT by hummingbird (Don't be afraid of the big words.)
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To: lbryce

There is no bigot like an atheist.


39 posted on 09/23/2013 2:24:27 PM PDT by IDFbunny
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To: lbryce
It's striving to be a global atheist religion.

atheism - the doctrine or belief that there is no God; disbelief in the existence of a supreme being or beings.

religion - belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe.

"atheist religion" is an oxymoron.

40 posted on 09/23/2013 2:42:22 PM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
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