Posted on 07/27/2014 2:20:23 AM PDT by markomalley
Viewed from the outside, the pointy-roofed building in a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee deep in the heart of America’s Bible Belt, looks very much like a church.
And stepping inside, where a congregation is swaying along to music, listening to sermons and discussing ways to help their local community, it sounds very much like a church too.
There is, however, one rather fundamental missing ingredient that sets this congregation apart from the hundreds of others turning out to worship this Sunday morning in Nashville: this is a church without God.
“I pass seven big churches between my house and the main road two miles away, there are plenty of churches in Nashville, but we needed a place for us,” says David Lyle, a founder-member of the Nashville branch of the “Sunday Assembly” secular church movement.
Started in London in January 2013 by a pair of British stand-up comedians, Sunday Assembly offers a church experience but without the “God part” and, according to organisers, it is starting to catch on in America.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The deeper Western Civilization sinks into decadence, the further lost the lost will become, but those who are not lost will remain firmly rooted in Truth, will continue to see clearly in its light, and will prevail.
LOL!
These people attending this “service” are sadly deceived if they believe there is no god in it. They are at least worshipping Satan and themselves, and probably other created things but they just don’t see it.
“So it has a similar background to the “Church” of Scientology, started by a novelist.”
You have to wonder if this secular church isn’t a hoax.
**without the “God part”**
I doubt that the churches like this will survive.
You ever hear about the dyslexic atheist? he didn’t believe in Dog.
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When the seed money contributed by international doofuses runs out, will the attendees contribute sufficiently to pay the rent on the meeting room? If they want to get together for service projects, they can arrange it over social media for free.
Funny how atheists feel the need to be in a church like setting, to demand they give invocations, etc when they claim to the high heavens that they believe none of that stuff. Are they so sure they don’t believe?
Makes one wonder what John Quincy Adams saw in Unitarianism?
The story of the American people in a nutshell
If there were no God .... there would be no atheists ....
... the dyslexic, agnostic insomniac? He lay awake all night wondering if there really is a dog.
Good one! :)
It’s the natural endgame of modern Christianity. Most churches today only pay lip service to God. They don’t teach or do the things that Christ taught or teach a perverted message.
It begab as a hyper rational deism that denied the Trinity and the Incarnation and other more commonly held Christian beliefs. There’s a stretch of road in Mass. where there’s an an ancient colonial church with an early 19th century church right next door both with the same name but the newer church has “Trinitarian” in parens at the bottom. Evidence of a doctrinal war.
Celtic conservative wrote:
““The church with no God”
Unitarians?
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Unitarians, eh? Try this:
http://www.cafepress.com/timeriftnetwork/489397
‘You will be assimilated.’
(Even the Pagans make fun of them.)
Another reason why I am happy we beat the Brits in the Revolutionary War: Britain appears to have no end of idiot ideas.
You ever hear about the dyslexic atheist? he didn’t believe in Dog.
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Actually, it’s the insomniac agnostic dyslexic. He stays up all night wondering if there really is a dog.
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