• Why Atheist Church Is Dumb

    From Ken Wurth@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 28 09:42:56 2017
    XPost: ucb.math, alt.society.civil-liberty, ca.environment
    XPost: alt.mountain-bike

    Lately, I’ve been getting a lot of notifications on my Facebook
    newsfeed about a new, dumb idea called “atheist church.” Every
    time I see it, I just shake my head in disgust. Atheist church
    is dumb, and here’s why.

    First and foremost, atheist church is dumb because one of the
    best things about being an atheist is not having to get up on
    Sunday morning to go to church.

    Duh!

    Who wants to drag themselves out of bed on a Sunday, root
    through the laundry pile, find clothes that smell halfway decent
    and socialize with a bunch of do-gooders? No thanks!

    I never really believed in God or Jesus, but you can rest
    assured that the perks of not having to go to church on Sunday
    had a helping hand in nudging me over the edge of agnosticism
    into full-fledged atheism. There’s no way I’m going to give up
    my blissful 1:00 p.m. Sunday wake up time to lug myself over to
    some dorky sing-a-long with a group of (most likely) well-
    educated people who are smarter than me an undoubtedly more
    charitable too. Why would I want to be surrounded by people who
    are better than me? I think I’ll stick to the self-esteem
    destroying power of Facebook, where the confidence busting
    happens virtually with no real human interaction required, thank
    you very much.

    Morgan Spurlock is going to be leading Sunday services at an
    atheist church in Nashville. What the hell is wrong with those
    people? Yeah, like I really want to watch some super
    accomplished guy who’s younger than me remind me that I’m not
    really doing much with my life. Ugh.

    The next reason why atheist church is dumb is because it
    reinforces the idea that church is required to live a decent
    life and be a good person. We atheists are supposed to be good
    without God; aka: without church. Now you better believe that
    every religious person who finds out about this is going to call
    us hypocrites or extremists and laugh in our faces, which is
    really the last thing we need. We have enough trouble being
    taken seriously as it is! Why give the yahoos more fuel for the
    fire? Don’t believe me? Watch the YouTube video at the end of
    this article in which the commentator calls atheists “retarded”
    for forming a church and says it’s “the biggest crock of s***
    ever.”

    Additionally, all the pictures I have seen of people attending
    services at atheist church have zero diversity. Sorry, sitting
    around with a bunch of other white people singing You Are My
    Sunshine isn’t really my idea of a good time.

    Possibly the most compelling reason why atheist church is dumb
    is because it is so freaking embarrassing. It’s really dorky. I
    dread every time someone asks me about these atheist churches
    because I don’t want to be associated with the concept in any
    way, shape or form. What the heck do they do there, anyway?
    Congratulate each other? I don’t understand the purpose. Some
    say it’s for “community.” Why not spend time with your friends
    and neighbors? Why not bring the old lady down the street a
    casserole? Wouldn’t doing actual community building activities
    be more productive than sitting around patting other atheists on
    the back? Supposedly, the service includes “sing-alongs” (dorky)
    and “poetry” (ok) along with “trying to figure out life.” It
    sounds suspiciously like some weirdo 1960s Hippie commune
    mentality; and there’s a reason why that mentality never got
    anyone anywhere.

    If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s group-think. The moment
    people congregate into groups to simply reinforce and celebrate
    each other’s ideas, which happen to be all the exact same ideas,
    I lose interest.

    Quite frankly, I’d rather spend an hour talking to Ken Ham than
    attend one of these self-congratulatory, nerdy atheist church
    sessions. At least Ham would be amusing, and who knows, maybe I
    would learn something new about how young earth creationists
    think, which is far more interesting to me than a sing-along
    with (most likely) pushy vegans and naval-gazing intellectuals.

    Atheist church is dumb. I don’t have to adhere to a set of
    ideas, believe in God, or go to church to be charitable to
    others and uphold a strong moral code. Being independent and
    strengthening society by doing good works on my own while at the
    same time reaching out to my fellow man with goodwill and
    kindness does not require attendance at a church service. That’s
    the whole point of being an atheist, after all.

    http://guardianlv.com/2014/02/why-atheist-church-is-dumb/
     

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