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Old 04-27-2009, 12:16 PM
 
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You profess to be studying to be a pastor for your religion, yet you show so many un-Jesus-like attributes.
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians, Your christians are so unlike your christ." --- Mahatma Gandhi
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Old 04-27-2009, 12:24 PM
 
Location: Western Cary, NC
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I have seen the shift in areas I would have never thought possible. In the Raleigh and Fayetteville, NC area we have several very active Atheist groups. I don’t think a weeks goes by without an email from one of them announcing a meeting or game night. It sure puts a new light on the identity of this being the bible belt. .
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Old 04-27-2009, 12:49 PM
 
Location: The land where cats rule
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wow....you guys really need to get get some senses of humor. You say we're over-sensitive when you mock us, call us stupid, and blaspheme our God, but get all bent out of shape when I suggest this "support group" is fulfilling the same purpose that a local church body does to a believer?

Major difference is that we are right
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Old 04-27-2009, 01:11 PM
 
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Major difference is that we are right

lol....yeah. if you say so.
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Old 04-27-2009, 01:24 PM
 
Location: South Africa
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Pretty sad if your social structures need to be defined by belief. The only time I have ever had to indicate my "religion" was when conscripted to the army and on admission to hospital, both times atheist/non denominational was an option of the multiple choice.
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Old 04-27-2009, 01:46 PM
 
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It's a time of fellowship, right? You talk about your spiritual views (or lack thereof)?

That sounds like church.

Technically, any gathering is a "church". The greek word for it is ekklesia which means a called out group. Its even used to denote the pagan mob that went after Paul in the book of Acts.

So yes, the meetup was a church.
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Old 04-27-2009, 02:50 PM
 
Location: Metromess
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I attend the North Texas Church of Freethought, and it's definitely non-theistic. Highly recommended!
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Old 04-27-2009, 03:39 PM
 
Location: Nashville, Tn
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I have seen the shift in areas I would have never thought possible. In the Raleigh and Fayetteville, NC area we have several very active Atheist groups.
North Carolina is one of the fastest growing Southern states and there are probably alot of newcomers from the north who tend to be more liberal. I think in a few more years it's going to be very different in many parts of the South as it becomes more progressive.
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Old 04-27-2009, 04:47 PM
 
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It's a time of fellowship, right? You talk about your spiritual views (or lack thereof)?

That sounds like church.
WOW...I agree with kdbrich?!?! Will wonders never cease...

Yahh, this is indeed a atheists church. And watch, they will soon ex-communicate anyone who has second thoughts and thinks that maybe there is some kind of deity...

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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
-Nietzsche

So, what can we say about this atheists group...
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Old 04-27-2009, 04:52 PM
 
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Except without all the preaching, saving, tongues, gossip, crying, prostelyzing, hypocrisy, myth, and money changing hands, yeah, aside from all that, you're right.

No money? So, I guess the bigger space is going to be free some how...also, have you ever heard of Quakers "speaking in the tongues" and all that? As for gossip...can you guarantee that this godless congregation will have no gossip? Or how about the myth that science has all the answers? (cure for AIDS? I don't see one...) and as for prostelyzing... The Evangelical Atheist

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