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Atheist 'mega-churches' take root across US, world
AP ^ | 11/10/13 | GILLIAN FLACCUS

Posted on 11/10/2013 3:47:09 PM PST by SoFloFreeper

It looked like a typical Sunday morning at any mega-church...The only thing missing was God.

Dozens of gatherings dubbed "atheist mega-churches" by supporters and detractors are springing up around the U.S. after finding success in Great Britain earlier this year...

On Sunday, the inaugural Sunday Assembly in Los Angeles attracted more than 400 attendees, all bound by their belief in non-belief. Similar gatherings in San Diego, Nashville, New York and other U.S. cities...

The founders, British duo Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans, are currently on a tongue-in-cheek "40 Dates, 40 Nights" tour around the U.S. and Australia to drum up donations and help launch dozens of Sunday Assemblies. They hope to raise more than $800,000 that will help atheists launch their pop-up congregations around the world.

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FYI.

Sounds to me like Sanderson and Pippa are looking to get some quick cash.

1 posted on 11/10/2013 3:47:09 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper
British duo Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans

I'll take Peter and Gordon.

2 posted on 11/10/2013 3:49:55 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: SoFloFreeper

Who is that masquerades as an angel of light?


3 posted on 11/10/2013 3:50:16 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

They meet at Starbucks and the title is tipping the barrista.


4 posted on 11/10/2013 3:50:19 PM PST by struggle
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To: struggle

They meet at Starbucks and the tithe is tipping the barrista.


5 posted on 11/10/2013 3:50:43 PM PST by struggle
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To: SoFloFreeper

So what? They all get together and talk about nothing?
Praise nothing?
Give thanks to nothing?

Sounds boring to me.


6 posted on 11/10/2013 3:51:19 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: SoFloFreeper; zot; NYer

Shall we now sing that old favorite: “Give me that old time atheism.”


7 posted on 11/10/2013 3:51:48 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: SoFloFreeper

A comedian draws 400 to a show and its now considered a MEGA-Church?

Almost as sad as the LGTB(WTF?) yearly “national” meeting that drew 20 freaks.

But if conservatives draw a few thousand its an embarrassment.


8 posted on 11/10/2013 3:52:04 PM PST by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: tet68
Sounds boring to me.

I'm an atheist, and it sounds boring to me as well...!

9 posted on 11/10/2013 3:52:25 PM PST by Kip Russell (Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Is Nothing sacred?


10 posted on 11/10/2013 3:52:47 PM PST by Proud2BeRight
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To: tet68

Churches need to fight this themselves. I think churches of ALL denominations have not been doing their jobs with the effectiveness they used to in decades and centuries past, and I somehow doubt it is not just me who feels this way.


11 posted on 11/10/2013 3:52:50 PM PST by freedom462
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To: SoFloFreeper

the rise of the anti-Christ’s


12 posted on 11/10/2013 3:53:10 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

ha they will never out do the democrat national convention


13 posted on 11/10/2013 3:54:16 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: tet68

They praise themselves.


14 posted on 11/10/2013 3:54:37 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

So it’s just like a Unitarian Church then?


15 posted on 11/10/2013 3:55:44 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: bigheadfred

I wouldn’t want to bet on that.

Athiest churches, isn’t that like gay marriages?


16 posted on 11/10/2013 3:55:47 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: bigheadfred

Good one!! LOL!! I wonder if they all boo God in unison like the Democrats did....


17 posted on 11/10/2013 3:57:19 PM PST by yellowdoghunter (Welcome to Obamastan!)
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To: bigheadfred

Sorry BHF, I thought you said, “...never do the democrat
convention”.


18 posted on 11/10/2013 3:57:30 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Pippa and Sanderson.


19 posted on 11/10/2013 3:57:37 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: KC_Lion

Pretty darn close, I’d say!


20 posted on 11/10/2013 3:58:00 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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