[NYer]

Ignorance is bliss .... ping!

[cerberus]

Neither theist nor atheist, I have no need for a church and enjoy a little more sleep on Sunday morning.

Why an a-theist needs a "church" is beyond me.

[Secret Agent Man]

Interesting on what the atheists want and are attempting to call church.

Nostalgia isn’t worship. Everyone is comforted being in a place that may remind you of good times or familiarity and such, but that alone isn’t worship or “church”.

A guy up on stage doing his comedy routine isn’t worship, or “church”.

Singing a bunch of rock songs, isn’t “church”.

This is people knowing they lack something because they have a void in their lives, and they’re trying to fill it with worldly crap that doesn’t matter. Many won’t ever fill it with the thing they need the most, Jesus Christ, because He’s the only thing that will fill that God-shaped void. But they aren’t looking for Him because they don’t believe He is God. They’re trying to fill the empty space in themselves God would occupy, with everything but God.

And when you do that, you eventually realize nothing fills that space, and you either conclude only God could, or you don’t figure it out and get more and more depressed because nothing you try fills that void.

[conserv8]

the Big Bang?

Nah.

Consider the mustard seed.

[kidd]

The congregation standing just before singing “Superstition” by Stevie Wonder.

I suspect this was the point in the "service" where religious beliefs are mocked. Hatred of those who have religious beliefs is a core element (if not the focus) of atheistic activity.

[heartwood]

I was raised Unitarian - more or less - so I’ve gone to atheistic churches. Mostly the sermon was about some humane or granola-ish or ecological subject - liberal touchstones.

One Christmas it was about Mithra and the return of the sun - in your face, Christians.

I suspect it’s gotten more hardline leftist political in recent years - my mother has gotten far more conservative and is often offended by the liberal presumptions she encounters there - but she still goes.

There’s a need for community and morality and awe even among atheists and one can understand them having church-life organizations, but it seems rather difficult to celebrate a negative - no God! no meaning except for our short-lived own devisings!

[righttackle44]

When I used to string for national Christian publications, I once attended a Universal-Unitarian church on a Sunday morning to make contact with a person I wanted to interview--she was the speaker.

I sensed the same emptiness of the people attending that Mr. Beshears conveys.

As I write this, I am sitting in an apartment with my wife in a city away from our hometown because my wife has just had a kidney transplant. We cannot mix with the public yet because of some dangers of contamination and so forth. There is a church less than half-a-mile away that we would love to attend, but we can't yet. Listening to Sunday morning preaching on television is okay, but as Erma Bombeck used to say, it ain't the same, McGee.

[Ken H]

‘After services, we invite everyone to join us for a prayer lunch at Joe’s Vegetarian Steakhouse.’

[Repeat Offender]

Well, the Lord works in mysterious ways. Perhaps this "church" will have regular attendees searching for the round peg to fill the void in their soul.

And, after a time of being a devoted attendee will realize they are still left wanting and wander into a "real" church to see what "they" [Christians] are doing different.

[HarleyD]

...we are just a tiny leftover of what was there at the beginning of the universe.

Must be sad to think that you're no better than the leftover meatloaf in the fridge.

[Slyfox]

They awaiteth their saviour to reveal himself.

[annalex]

The Godless No. 7(640) May 1, 1938

The red banner top: Long live Frist of May -- the battle review of the revolutionary forces of the international proletariat!

Portraits of Lenin and Stalin

Article headlines: The Great Holiday of Labor; For Friendship and Fraternity of Peoples; Labor In the USSR Is Work of Honor; Church and Fascism.

Plain-evident Proof of the Rotation of the Earth (Foucault pendulum installed in St. Isaac Cathedral in "Leningrad").

From the article about the Pendulum:

In Leningrad near the Neva river, there stands former St. Isaac cathedral. Till mid-1928 "Isaky" was a fortress of obscurantism and a bulwark of counter-revolution. Since 1931 it was reincarnated as hearth of culture. Installed inside is the Foucault pendulum which with every swing marks the rotation of the Earth, thus proving the religious notions wrong.

[johngrace]

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[winkadink]

“everyone missed the music and community of their childhood experiences in church and want to bring it back into their lives.”
Ah yes, they are all about what I want and what pleases me.

[Bigg Red]

Deep down in every human being, we are compelled to worship, because it’s what we were created to do.

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That is why so many who reject Christianity flock to stupid stuff like pagan traditions. Satan just smiles....

[Mark17]

My Sunday at an Atheistic Church

I wonder if he saw Obama there? Oh no, wait, he is a Muslim.

[MeOnTheBeach]

How many times have you seen or heard atheists denying that atheism is a religion? Especially on DU....

Next time, just point them to this...