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msfiddlestix

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14. The term :"Church" translates to a place of worship for organized religion.
Sat Feb 24, 2024, 11:09 AM
Feb 2024

I am very reluctant to identify myself as an atheist. More inclined to identify myself as agnostic.
Regardless, I am quite clear of identifying as Anti-Religious.

Don't know if that's a term generally used within the context of these discussions, just pointing out
using terms I associate with temples of cult worshipers, which all organized use religions gather to burn in their cult doctrines in the minds of worshipers . Temples, Mosques, Churches, it's all the same abhorrent thing to me.

Just expressing my confusion and asking why embrace a term associated with organized religion?









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What is an Athiest Church? [View all] NJCher Jan 2024 OP
The Unitarian Universalist chuch here is very into conservvation and doing good works Maraya1969 Jan 2024 #1
Where is this? It sounds just like the small UU congregation... 3catwoman3 Jan 2024 #2
Fort Myers FL Maraya1969 Jan 2024 #7
Sure but Unitarianism is a Christian Protestant Voltaire2 Jan 2024 #5
I have never heard them talk about any God. Maybe others are like that but the one in my town isn't. Maraya1969 Jan 2024 #6
There are no 'Atheist Churches'... NeoGreen Jan 2024 #3
Eh. If some atheists want to congregate and call Voltaire2 Jan 2024 #4
True... NeoGreen Jan 2024 #8
While I agree for the most part that what other people do is none of my business Warpy Jan 2024 #9
'St.' Paul (Saul of Tarsus) used the Greek word ekklesia for church. pandr32 Jan 2024 #10
An oxymoron? niyad Jan 2024 #11
A contradiction in terms. DavidDvorkin Jan 2024 #12
Spending the year dead for tax reasons? SomewhereInTheMiddle Feb 2024 #13
The term :"Church" translates to a place of worship for organized religion. msfiddlestix Feb 2024 #14
I'm puzzled how someone who is an agnostic could be anti-religion. My understanding is that an agnostic believes Martin68 Mar 2024 #15
I'm anti-religion, not "anti-god". A HUGE distinction with a significant difference msfiddlestix Mar 2024 #16
OK, I get it, and agree with you, although I've always added "organized" before the religion part because religion Martin68 Mar 2024 #17
If they had psychedelic churches Mr.Bill Mar 2024 #18
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