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Atheist ‘mega-churches’ spring up across U.S., world
Associated Press ^ | Posted: Friday, Nov. 15, 2013 | Gillian Flaccus

Posted on 11/16/2013 11:56:02 AM PST by boatbums

It looked like a typical Sunday morning at any mega-church. Hundreds packed in for more than an hour of rousing music, an inspirational sermon, a reading and some quiet reflection. 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. The movement fueled by social media and spearheaded by two prominent British comedians is no joke. The inaugural Sunday Assembly in Los Angeles recently attracted more than 400 attendees, all bound by their belief in nonbelief.

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/11/14/4466619/atheist-mega-churches-spring-up.html#storylink=cpy

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Even Atheists sense the need to assembly (church) together. They want to sing, laugh, fellowship and meet needs without realizing that the Creator of all placed that very thing within us.
1 posted on 11/16/2013 11:56:02 AM PST by boatbums
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To: boatbums

The AP having another anti-faith orgasm. People without faith are people without souls...their afterlife will be dark and empty.


2 posted on 11/16/2013 12:01:46 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: boatbums
Sounds like a rave to me.
3 posted on 11/16/2013 12:02:13 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: boatbums

The difference is that atheists mock instead of worship. Whenever they get together to relate their “disbelief”, it’s always in mockery, saying how stupid religious people must be to believe in some old white-bearded guy sitting in the clouds. Do religious people get together to say how stupid atheists are? No, and there’s the difference.


4 posted on 11/16/2013 12:03:34 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They will merge shortly with the Unitarians. The Methodists are not far behind.


5 posted on 11/16/2013 12:03:55 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: boatbums
Just the place to be on a Sunday morning - amidst a throng of scoffing sneering cynics.

What else could go on in an "atheist mega church"? Heaven knows there are already enough places to go that have conscientiously omitted God.

6 posted on 11/16/2013 12:04:03 PM PST by skeeter
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To: boatbums

Do they get together just to discuss how they hate Christians and hate God?


7 posted on 11/16/2013 12:04:59 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant
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Atheist ‘mega-churches’ spring up across U.S., world

Of course! And the next step is for the Dems to legitimize these "churches" as mainline with legislation recognizing them as such. This is to further push real churches out of the mainstream and brand them as cults.

8 posted on 11/16/2013 12:05:30 PM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: EagleUSA

Atheists are sheep and they are the dumbest kind of sheep who thinks that freedom is found in the center of the herd.

Let the Atheist Mega-Social Centers thrive. Eventually, one guy with influence will find God and sneak back in to quietly evangelize to the sheep. He can be a modern-day CS Lewis.


9 posted on 11/16/2013 12:06:05 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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>>The Methodists are not far behind.

Are you a Methodist? Or have you just “heard”?


10 posted on 11/16/2013 12:06:59 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: boatbums

Sooner or later they will be worshipping something, which will be the modern equivalent of the golden calf.


11 posted on 11/16/2013 12:10:08 PM PST by CMB_polarization
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To: boatbums
Atheists-The Walking Dead
12 posted on 11/16/2013 12:11:59 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper (What we said when we said what we said was. Period.)
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To: boatbums
Of course the AP is presenting this as though it's a tidal wave of atheistic "liberation." The fact is there may be a handful of faddists thumbing their noses at traditional religion, but like all childish impulses, this won't last long.

Get back to me when it's survived 2,000 years.

13 posted on 11/16/2013 12:12:15 PM PST by IronJack (=)
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To: boatbums

I hope these people are remembering to separate their church from their state...


14 posted on 11/16/2013 12:13:03 PM PST by Tzimisce
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To: boatbums

So they have gone up from 1% to 1.1% big deal. It is still an empty lifestyle.

Pray America is Waking Up


15 posted on 11/16/2013 12:16:44 PM PST by bray (Delay Obamacare)
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To: boatbums

Why would it be called a church?


16 posted on 11/16/2013 12:18:23 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: boatbums

If all they have in common, what bonds them, is a hatred for believers, doesn’t that make them a “hate group”?

Also, a “mega-mob” not a “mega-church”. A church without God is not a church.

With no higher power to guide them, dangerous leaders are the natural result - their mission will necessarily become persecution.


17 posted on 11/16/2013 12:22:01 PM PST by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: boatbums
Here's an atheist Mega-Church for you.


20 posted on 11/16/2013 12:24:30 PM PST by dfwgator (Fire Muschamp.)
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