Why do atheists have meetings?

I mean, if they've all come to the conclusion that there is no god what is there to discuss? Do atheists have struggles with their 'faith' that call for group support to bring them back to the fold? Do they embark on evangelical recruiting missions and need to plan attacks and strategy?

I dont get it. What do they do?

As a Christian, to me this is just another sign for the end times.

There was a poll somewhere here on the internet about religious affiliations and such and it mentions that there are 2 Billion Christians in the world today. 1.5 Billion Muslims, then 1 Billion atheists. Of course, all other religious statistics are present there as well. I think it they did the survey between 2004-2007. Not too sure though.

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i'm not religious at all but atheists are as ignorant and blind as fundamentalists. They are just like religion, never finding a balance to their reasoning and thus chasing their tail into the abyss!

Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
Why do atheists have meetings?

I mean, if they've all come to the conclusion that there is no god what is there to discuss? Do atheists have struggles with their 'faith' that call for group support to bring them back to the fold? Do they embark on evangelical recruiting missions and need to plan attacks and strategy?

I dont get it. What do they do?

Didn't you read the the article? They meet in a bar. Perhaps they party.
Drink, Dance, have fun. With meetings like that; I'll bet they don't have to put much effort into recruiting.

I'm not athiest but i do no think the numbers are on the rise. I think that people are just becoming more open about it, which is a good thing. You can't thrive as anything if you hide what you are.

In South Florida, they recently picketed a prayer meeting in a public safety building paid for with tax dollars.

This part jumped out at me. This should have been picketed. However, I also feel an Atheist group meeting at the same location should also be picketed.

Atheism is just as much a religion as Christianity is. They aren't just people who don't believe in God, but people who actively try to educate people that there is no God.

They should have the same rights (and restrictions) as any other religious group. The problem is, in the above cited example, the whole seperation of Church and State has gone to the wayside.

oh, Darwin.. should be called the joke of evolution.

How does it feel to be wrong Charles Darwin?! You dead monkey.

Atheists are just as bad with hate. They are very closed minded when it comes to experiences.

note: You will NEVER have a profound experience in any religion, including atheism. Toss western science and religion out the door, it wont help you with anything.

The reason why people are so closed minded is because of the lack of experience they have because of the social impact others, who are corrupted already, influence them with.

Take some [SNIP] and watch what you thought was real dissolve to see what is real.

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Mod Edit: Removed drug reference.

[edit on 28-8-2009 by Gemwolf]

Originally posted by jvm222
Take some [SNIP] and watch what you thought was real dissolve to see what is real.

precisely, In my case it was a cactus. And also why I DO believe in a higher power.

Mod Edit: Removed quoted drug reference.

[edit on 28-8-2009 by Gemwolf]

Originally posted by TLomon

In South Florida, they recently picketed a prayer meeting in a public safety building paid for with tax dollars.

This part jumped out at me. This should have been picketed. However, I also feel an Atheist group meeting at the same location should also be picketed.

Atheism is just as much a religion as Christianity is. They aren't just people who don't believe in God, but people who actively try to educate people that there is no God.

They should have the same rights (and restrictions) as any other religious group. The problem is, in the above cited example, the whole seperation of Church and State has gone to the wayside.

Religion - Noun - Definition number 2: a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects:

woohoo, clearly defines atheism as a religion

Posting your drugs of choice is no way of backing up your credibility guys.

Hmm, sounds like Atheism is becoming a Religion unto itself.

Why else would they need to have meetings and congregate?

Hey, I'm all for Atheists being protected under the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, just like everyone else, but sometimes you have to call a spade a spade. If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it is a duck (and I can't believe I just quoted G. Bush!).

I do agree that Alternative Religions, as well as Agnostics and Atheists are growing in leaps and bounds due to the failure of Mainstream Religions to adapt to the changing of times to the point where they have become not only irrelevant to many but an anachronistic nuisance to some.

However, it just seems to me that Atheism is going too far in promoting itself in such a way that it becomes a Religious Surrogate that will inevitably fall into the same sanctimonious trap that Mainstream Religions have.

America doesn't need a Gymnasiarchy or a Pedantocracy, just as we don't need a Theocracy. There was a very good reason why Thomas Jefferson wrote about the wall of separation between church and state and the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the US Constitution...and as far as Government is concerned, the lack of a belief in a religion or God is a religious belief in and of itself, protected by the Constitution, and behind the wall of separation between church (or in this case, lack thereof) and state.

(Don't get me wrong though, I do like the quote "What schools need is a moment of science". That couldn't be more true!)

People having meetings in church or at a bar to validate each other's belief systems and all agree how the other side of their coin is the wrong side.

As always, agnostics - we're a non-prophet organization.