Atheist Megachurches

[Jester]

Wait, what.

[RydiaLockheart]

They creep me out. Then again, so does the idea of making nonbelief a religion. OK, I get atheism. But...turning your nonbelief into a belief system? Huh?

[Entice]

tongue-in-cheek and being run by two comedians, kind of an important detail

[stafffighter]

At 11/11/13 09:05 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote: They creep me out. Then again, so does the idea of making nonbelief a religion. OK, I get atheism. But...turning your nonbelief into a belief system? Huh?

The word you're looking for is "Hilarious"

[Gerad]

fuck you stafffighter i'll slam my dick on your face my mother raised me aithest you fucking fucker

[Aethos]

I wonder how that sermon would go....

"We are here biological cousins to spread our belief of non-belief!"

[Jester]

At 11/11/13 09:06 PM, Entice wrote: tongue-in-cheek and being run by two comedians, kind of an important detail.

You're not wrong, but raising 800k for global Sunday assemblies is a long way to go for a joke. Even if the founders weren't entirely serious about it, plenty of the people going seem to be.

At 11/11/13 09:21 PM, Aethos wrote:

I wonder how that sermon would go....

I imagine they're smelly affairs

[Rahmemhotep]

Regardless of comedic affairs, that's just lunacy. Pure, fantastical lunacy.

[Profanity]

Seems like a pretty good idea!

i grew up with an atheist family in my neighborhood. They were all absolute geniuses. Artists, musicians, a writer, a doctor, a very wealthy engineer, and a world-renowned published environmentalist. (Good looks, too, it's almost unfair how much good fortune they have) The entire mansion was essentially a six story library-museum! People like that are few and far between in the theist Churches I've been to. It would be nice to meet thousands of people like them.

[TB1ZZL3]

They've successfully confirmed every stereotype about atheism. Well done.

[thegarbear14]

so either you look at it as a bunch of atheists in a church of non belief

or a bunch of smug people who think they're smarter than everyone else making fun of people who are part of a religion....

so basically they're either really stupid or really stupid jerks?

[supergandhi64]

it was bound to happen seeing as how all atheists deep down know that they're wrong . . . in the quiet of their own minds 99.99% of all atheists pray that god forgives them for denying him & for putting on a front lol

--supergandhi64

[Cyberdevil]

The idea doesn't seem too bad, they just need to think up another name for the gathering than a church, it feels like churches are reserved for religious activities. Atheism isn't religion...

[Colastreet1991]

So... does that mean atheism is a religion now? :)

[Fluffington]

Capitalism, my friend. They'll be a market to pretty much anyone if there is a market for that group. Now why is this surprising again?

[TurkeyOnAStick]

At 11/12/13 05:55 AM, Fluffington wrote: Capitalism, my friend.

... how is this capitalism?

Nobody's selling t-shirts, the people who set this up want to encourage the community spirit that churches promote - without having the ties of religion.

[Little-Kinky]

That's... Really funny~

[Auz]

At 11/11/13 09:29 PM, Jester wrote:

At 11/11/13 09:06 PM, Entice wrote: tongue-in-cheek and being run by two comedians, kind of an important detail.

You're not wrong, but raising 800k for global Sunday assemblies is a long way to go for a joke. Even if the founders weren't entirely serious about it, plenty of the people going seem to be.

Yeah, I get the impression that this started off as a silly joke, but now that it turns out there's money to be made...

I can understand this though:
Sunday Assembly — ... — taps into that universe of people who left their faith but now miss the community church provided

I've heard that people who say farewell to the church tend to feel a little isolated, so this might be an alternative.

[ManDeep]

Man atheists are fuckin' retarded! XD

[Earfetish]

Sanderson Jones has read my dirty stories on the internet

proof

https://twitter.com/sandersonjones/status/6431099422

All you funny bastards saying 'atheism is now a religion lolz'; I ain't going to these atheist megachurches or paying any attention to what they say, I guess I'm still in the biggest sect of atheism - the 'we are not a religion' sect

[Ron-Geno]

Are there still "tithes" and "offerings"? Are they referred to as "donations"?

This just seems like a plan to make money from insecure Atheist.
Just like Christian Mega-churches are making a profit from insecure Christians.

[KatMaestro]

As an atheist, I think this is fucking retarded...