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After a schism, a question: Can atheist churches last?
CNN Belief Blog ^ | 01/05/2014 | Katie Engelhart

Posted on 01/05/2014 6:51:35 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 01/05/2014 6:51:35 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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only if they make the mortgage payment..


2 posted on 01/05/2014 6:54:07 PM PST by RitchieAprile
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To: SeekAndFind
No surprise to me.





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3 posted on 01/05/2014 7:03:03 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Mlichael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course not, but what will this eventually morph into?

This kind of organizing probably isn’t intended to endure, but to be a seed of something larger, I doubt that the purpose is to merely be a routine service, quietly held in rented buildings forever, this is about something much uglier, this is about organizing people and forming an active movement.

Atheists aren’t forming up just to share coffee and community, they tend to go bad.


4 posted on 01/05/2014 7:05:05 PM PST by ansel12 ( Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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To: SeekAndFind

The lunacy continues.


5 posted on 01/05/2014 7:05:09 PM PST by Viennacon
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Atheists are idiots.


6 posted on 01/05/2014 7:06:13 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The PCUSA and ELCA are basically atheistic churches and they are dying.


7 posted on 01/05/2014 7:10:36 PM PST by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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Can the atheist churches last? I thought they already had. It’s called Public University.


8 posted on 01/05/2014 7:11:14 PM PST by This Just In
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To: SeekAndFind

schism?

seriously?


9 posted on 01/05/2014 7:11:49 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: SeekAndFind

Its just a stupid fad and a political statement, ergo no.


10 posted on 01/05/2014 7:12:19 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Gene Eric

Perhaps they could merge with...

http://www.coffeepartyusa.com/

Remember that great movement back in 2010.....


11 posted on 01/05/2014 7:12:44 PM PST by pkmaine
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Next stop, Reformation.


12 posted on 01/05/2014 7:24:26 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: SeekAndFind

Buddhism has been around for a while, and is, essentially, an atheist religion.


13 posted on 01/05/2014 7:27:05 PM PST by donmeaker (A man can go anywhere on earth, and where man can go, he can drag a cannon.)
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lol

will there be protestant atheism?


14 posted on 01/05/2014 7:27:22 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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I do — the beanbags.


15 posted on 01/05/2014 7:27:33 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: donmeaker

Some teachers tell students beginning Buddhist meditation that the notion of divinity is not incompatible with Buddhism.

At least one Buddhist scholar (Dr. B. Alan Wallace) has indicated that describing Buddhism as non-theistic may be overly simplistic.


17 posted on 01/05/2014 7:30:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: Viennacon

I’ve heard atheists talk about why people like religion, and they sometimes fall upon the conclusion that it is the community.
Here are people who celebrate life milestones like births, deaths and marriages. They gather regularly for holidays / holy days, creating community and connections, something too few atheists have, hence their higher divorce and suicide rates. Rituals are reassuring, but they lack those of the Christian community, so they gather and sing their own songs. (”Imagine” is high on that list.)
The atheists attracted to these churches long for a larger community that many atheists only see in political organization, but that lacks emotional depth. Atheist churches are an attempt to bring deeper emotional connections and community to their lives, something churches naturally create unless too strict or abstract.


19 posted on 01/05/2014 7:39:25 PM PST by tbw2
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To: SeekAndFind

and their point is????????


20 posted on 01/05/2014 7:56:58 PM PST by terycarl
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