Coming this Sunday to New York's atheist church (Buddhism, Jesus, minority)

[nezlie]

Charles Darwin’s great-great-grandson to speak at New York’s bikini bar atheist church

Filmmaker Matthew Chapman, Darwin's kin, will speak about 'beginnings' at the Sunday Assembly's second meeting in New York.

Charles Darwin

p.s. I hope someone puts it on youtube.

[Arjay51]

Atheist church?

No such thing. Meeting perhaps but as titled this thread is trolling.

[Chenika]

Atheist church?!

[bulmabriefs144]

Atheist church.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eF8x2wwLkM

Why use Sunday btw? You could decide "Man I hate Mondays let's make it an off-day." If you're really atheist and not simply anti-theist, the traditions of the church shouldn't matter to you.

[TRANSPONDER]

Jesus, I could only watch a few seconds of it. Definitely not for me, but if some want to use it as an alternative to charismatic church -going, that's up to them.

[bulmabriefs144]

I watched until about where I saw foreground mentioned St. John's (one thing to build your own temple, kinda another to mooch some else's, even though churches sometimes overlap). Yea...

http://www.southheightsbaptist.com/ChurchPic-1.jpg

Typical Baptist Church (point emphasis).

http://www.umchoteau.org/clientimage...all2007012.jpg

Typical Methodist Church

There is no typical Episcopal Church (Episcopal churches have a tendency to vary in everything from architecture to theology, based on culture around them)

http://yebworld.com/wp-content/uploa...-Cathedral.jpg

Average Catholic Cathedral (They vary too, but all have a distinctive overblown look)

http://www.moscow.info/images/red-sq...-Cathedral.jpg

Just for reference, Orthodox.

These churches all have a sort of way about them, that is reflected in their architecture. As does Buddhism and Taoism.

http://minority11.files.wordpress.co...temple-ii3.jpg

Buddhist temples are externally functional, and the inside is sorta gaudy (glorifying what's inside)

http://attracttour.com/wp-content/up...t-temple-1.jpg

Taoist Temples (I've been to them, they actually were about like this) are externally gaudy, almost to theme-park level. They tend to favor towers and structurally sound buildings, because the inner part of a temple tends to be rather plain. It's what they value, functionality on the inside goofy on the outside.

So? You don't wanna be known as a cultural thief. Based on the sort of crude simplicity of that Atheist monument earlier, the best I can come up with for the the sort of building atheists would hang out in is this.

http://www.australiaforeveryone.com....onicTemple.gif

[TRANSPONDER]

No, thanks. It looks like a Soviet Chairman's mausoleum. I'd prefer something like a huge soap bubble, mostly made of glass, with the various levels for conferences, library and research, cafeteria and beer -fountain....

[nezlie]

Originally Posted by Arjay51

Atheist church?

No such thing. Meeting perhaps but as titled this thread is trolling.

Even if they are doing it in jest, why can't they call themselves a church? Is there some rule or commandment that they are violating?

The Sunday Assembly

[11thHour]

Athiest church..as an athiest I cannot support such a thing. Actually I find it ridiculous.

[Arjay51]

Originally Posted by nezlie

Even if they are doing it in jest, why can't they call themselves a church? Is there some rule or commandment that they are violating?

The Sunday Assembly

You truly don't understand atheism, do you?