Introducing Myself
As an experienced blogger http://www.freeassemblage.blogspot.com/ I realize this isn't a blog. I just don't see anywhere else to put it. Maybe I'm being blind, but there is nowhere on my profile for this info that I can see. Am I wrong? Where is it?
Anyway, I've been atheist since I was 4 years old. As an atheist in AA, I started an atheist AA group that is registered with AA International. I author the website www.atheistaa.org and the once-in-a-while blog that goes with it.
I also am working on a bigger project, the First Free Church of Atheism.
An atheist church? Boy do I hear a lot of comments about that, especially about it being a contradiction.
Well, at least 3 court justices have declared that for the purposes of protection under the First Amendment, atheism must be declared a religion. One of those suits was brought by a man who was ordered to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, and he said since he was atheist it ought not be legal to sentence him to a God-oriented program.
On my Church site you will find a complete and legally declarative letter explaining the concept of a "free church." You will also find a link to a recovery Chat Room. Some of those people in there hate me just for being atheist, but most people are great, and some chat with me on the side because they too, are atheist alcoholics and don't know how to handle the "god" thing in AA.
So if you wish to drop me a line, my email is [email protected]
Sincerely,
Curtis C
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Welcome aboard.I remember
Welcome aboard.
I remember attending some meetings CA (Cocaine Anonymous) had years ago, these were designed around supporting the family members of addicts, as opposed to the addicts themselves. What was interesting was I was attending with my Mormon aunt who I had moved in with at the time and she actually seemed to be more opposed to the religious component then I was. I never have figured out what they said or did but it apparently didn't go along with her belief system some how. I believe it was being hosted out of a Catholic Hospital at the time, being I was raised as a Catholic, I wouldn't have noticed anything out of the ordinary regardless of my lack of faith.
All the luck in your efforts...
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. - William S. Burroughs
Welcome. Can't say I much
Welcome.
Can't say I much like the idea of a church of atheism, but as you briefly alluded to you've probably heard enough about that as it is.
Enlightened Atheist, Gaming God.
Welcome!
Welcome!
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, | As I foretold you, were all spirits, and | Are melted into air, into thin air; | And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, | The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, | The solemn temples, the great globe itself, - Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, | And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, | Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff | As dreams are made on, and our little life | Is rounded with a sleep. - Shakespeare
Church of atheism
I understand it when people back away from the idea. I rather embrace it simply as a slap in the face to all those religious rabble rousers who don't like the idea either. But on the practical side, if a "church" is for the purpose of promoting a belief system---and at least 3 judges have said it must be considered a religion in order to be protected under the 1st Amendment, then a church of atheism is promoting "worship"; rather, it is promoting reasoned enlightenment about the impossibility of anything supernatural. After all, a church of religion is nothing more than a place to promote "evidence" supernaturalism through the three fundamental "miracles" of Christianity: the Virgin Birth; the Trinity; and the Ressurrection.
But more than that, my church of atheism promotes the natural spirituality of the human being, a spirituality that begins as tabula rasa as his mind, and dies with his mind. Unlike determinists and scientific naturalists, I don't deny that the physiology of the mind and body that gives us the "impression" of having a "spirit" can be called by the name "spirit."
Determinists and scientific naturalists do not deny that the physiology of what is at the end of your arm goes by the name of "hand"; or that the phenomenon given to us by our eyes is called "sight". Yet they deny that the physiology we sense as our spirit can be called by the name of "soul." I understand they don't want to associate the physiology with the old supernaturalism behind the word "soul"; but they are throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
But I embrace the idea of a church for a much more practical idea than tweaking a few noses: what better place to give lectures on the naturalism of the human soul and on the subject of metaphysical naturalism (which includes so-called "hard atheism"-----than in a church?
Thanks for arousing my mind with your comment. I always appreciate the chance to speak.
My head
Thanks. I always try to use my head because the result of not using it gets me into trouble!
Thanks
Thanks.