Why would I want to do this? What is it that I would feel I was missing?

Absolutely I would attend, especially if refreshments were served.

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.

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

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

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

Sounds kinda like a Unitarian church...

I’m good thanks.

No, thank you.

Terminology fashioned after that of the church? Ugggg.

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

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

I have more important things to do.