Church without God - by design [View all]

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Members of an atheist congregation at Harvard listen to music during a recent gathering.

June 22nd, 2013
11:25 AM ET
By Dan Merica, CNN

Boston (CNN)-– It’s Sunday in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a rapt congregation listens to a chaplain preach about the importance of building a community.

A few dozen people sit quietly for the hourlong service. Music is played, announcements are made and scholars wax poetic about the importance of compassion and community.

Outsiders could be forgiven for believing this service, with its homilies, its passing of the plate, its uplifting songs, belongs in a church.

If so, it’s a church without one big player: God.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/22/church-without-god-by-design/