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rainin

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9. I've always thought that atheists could vanquish religion if we organized around atheist "churches".
Fri Sep 13, 2024, 04:44 AM
Sep 13

It's the churches that maintain the power, not merely the religion. People need community and religious houses of worship meet that need.

Being atheist is lonely. I miss what I had as a child when my family would go to our neighborhood church on Sunday morning and Sunday night for services and Wednesday night for a community potluck. My kids never had that. We couldn't find anything that was remotely similar for them. At one point, out of desperation, I tried taking them to church, but found it to be so distasteful, I didn't return. The need for community was, and still is, real.



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