If there are no tithes, how will you take advantage of your tax-exempt status?

No, thank you.

I would consider attending as a social gathering, perhaps with a meal included, in order to meet some like-minded people in my area, but I would immediately leave at a sermon of any type.

Terminology fashioned after that of the church? Ugggg.

No, thank you.

I have more important things to do.

What no hookers lol

I’m good thanks.

Hmm ... atheist church. That's rich. No thanks.

not me. why would i? what would be its purpose? i do not need to join a group that tells me how to believe OR how not to believe. btw, i don't miss churchy rituals because i was raised in a secular jewish family. robes and saints and all that neither hearken back to nor mock anything in my background. it would be annoyingly like a christian thingy.

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Sounds kinda like a Unitarian church...

I'll join but only if i get a pope hat too lol

I spent 32 years trying to not attend church with my ex, so the answer is not no, but hell no.

No, no and no. You find yourself someone else to play with.

You might see more interest if you include sex orgies.

Other than bands, I'm not a group kinda guy.

Can't we just have a party?

Sounds like a waste of time and resources. Can you sway me?

In early books adopted into the bible the word Jesus used for church was the Greek word “ekklēsia”. The same word is used for when a gathering of citizens are called from their homes into a public place for an assembly.

If you are thinking of some sort of assembly / party / meeting of like minded agnostics I'm in ... but if you plan some sort of organisation with leader, heirarchy, rules and codes - not for me. I follow no god, no person, no rules but my own.(generally aligned to polite society)

"A gathering" of like-minded people would be nice. Just a place to hang out. No pseudo intellectuals or other bullsh*t

I refuse to join any church that would have me as a member (stolen from Groucho).

I had the same idea in hippee days. The cultures of the world's communities certainly need reform. Religion has made many sick. Your list of saints is spot on. I would include more scientists of history though, not just today's. Darwin's friend and defender Aldous Thomas Henry Huxley.(Darwin's Bulldog), JBS Haldane, the Carl Sagan of his day, and of course Carl Sagan. Another good candidate is Thales of Ionia, the Farther of the Scientific Method -- he encouraged his students to write down the results of their experiments so they could refute the followers of Greek myths.

Here's the most important contribution your church could make: Make 1859 the first year of the New Era.

To those who responded negatively to the above idea: You should realize how much organized religion has fucked up humanity. It's got to go. The church has fucked everything up, replacing organized daily life with slavery, prejudice, misogyny, war, child abuse, mistrust of science, elitism, and on and on.

Here's how outlandish the culture has become under its influence: There's a day honoring the memory of one of history's most murderous, cruel and sadistic individuals. In an authoritarian church the truth means nothing. Christopher Columbus's favorite saint was St. Dominic, the founder of the Spanish Inquisition. The saint was won't to visit burning pyres of sacrificed "heretics" and read them various Biblical texts as they sizzled like marshmallows. Columbus was sending back pure gold back to Spain by the galleon-full. And this country had a holiday in his honor.

Today both of these religious assholes have countries actually named after them: Columbia and the Dominican Republic.

I've got the altar candles!

Absolutely I would attend, especially if refreshments were served.