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In reply to the discussion: Atheists starting godless churches [View all]Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)40. They're doing what the UUs have already done.
UUs accept atheists and agnostics and pagans. They love to have discussion groups in the time slot where other churches have Sunday school!! The discussion groups are interesting.
I say this as a member, choir director and music director at various UU churches and fellowships since 1979. It's the only church that accepts atheists, agnostics, the questioning and pagans, so it's the only church I'll set foot in. And it's good to have a community where asking questions about god and creation are not a huge sin making you worthy of expulsion.
They have taken many of the standard hymns and changed the words. They also started in the 80s to rewrite words to hymns to remove sexist references to mankind.
I live too far out in the country to be near a UU church or fellowship.
There are secular humanist ministers too. www.secularhumanist.org
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As an atheist-leaning agnostic I saw Unitarian congregations as intellectually incoherent.
HereSince1628
Nov 2013
#22
Except that they don't. The media does. The organizers call it an assembly.
Luminous Animal
Nov 2013
#70
Everyone has a "World View". Everyone has philosophical frameworks. Everyone.
KittyWampus
Nov 2013
#64
Organized Atheists for the Non-heretical Heretic. What would you name the locations
NightWatcher
Nov 2013
#35
My wife and I went to the North Texas Church of Freethought a few times back in the 90s
derby378
Nov 2013
#38
Otherwise known as a "gathering of people." NOT a "church" and NOT a "sermon."
WinkyDink
Nov 2013
#42
The assemblies actually don't qualify for the definition of mega anything.
Luminous Animal
Nov 2013
#59