Continuing my day of religious stuff…..I read one article that made me ask the typical….WTF?

Let me give you a short synopsis before I go into my rant……

Atheist-church leaders in New York have bitterly broken away from their central church in London, creating what may be the first schism in modern organized atheism, CNN reports. Late last year, Lee Moore and two other members of The Sunday Assembly’s franchise in New York broke off and created the Godless Revival. Moore alleges that Sanderson Jones, co-founder of The Sunday Assembly in London, wanted the New York group to “boycott the word atheism” and have no “speakers from the atheist community.” Jones also wanted members to meet in a church-like setting rather than a Manhattan dive bar. Jones called the schism “very sad,” but said he hoped “there will soon be communities for every different type of atheist, agnostic and humanist.” The breakup highlights just how diverse atheist churches are, from warm-and-fuzzy groups that experience wonderment at the universe to hardcore atheists who gather in a bar. The Assembly’s Los Angeles chapter has moved toward so-called “big tent” atheism, to include various humanists and freethinkers—and why not? A Pew poll says 20% of Americans have no religious affiliation but don’t consider themselves atheists. So does this divisiveness mean it’s better to keep atheist churches local and unorganized? “Actually,” says Moore, “we do have expansion aims.”

Now you read it and you saw what I saw…an Atheist Church….go back….an atheist church?  Screw the argument they are having within it….it is an ATHEIST CHURCH!

Did I miss something in my religious indoctrination?

Atheist?  Atheism is not a belief system nor is it a religion. While there are some religions that are atheistic (certain sects of Buddhism, for example), that does not mean that atheism is a religion. Two commonly used retorts to the nonsense that atheism is a religion are: 1) If atheism is a religion then bald is a hair color, and 2) If atheism is a religion then health is a disease. A new one introduced in 2012 by Bill Maher is, “If atheism is a religion, then abstinence is a sexual position.”

I’m still working on the church part………I am by NO means an expert on the subject of atheism…..but it does not seem to fit in the same sentence…..Atheist Church…..I am open to an explanation if someone has a good one……let it fly!

It still fits in there with ‘military intelligence’, ‘jumbo shrimp’ and ‘the immortal dead’……stil,l sounds like an oxymoron.