Sunday Assembley Any Comments?

[EDDIE51]

I heard about this organisation through an item in New Scientist '' What if we all stopped believing in God?''
It sounds intresting all the posative aspects of church going with out the 'God' aspect, just celebration of the joy of being alive and living our one life to its full potential. Anyone been to a 'service' any comments?
http://sundayassembly.com/story/

[Graham-W]

It looks to me that in this case Atheism is becoming a religion in it's own right. OK if you need it but even God says you don't have to go to church.
"For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." Mat 18:20
I, personally, don't need to meet up to celebrate life. I do that on a daily basis with my family and friends.

[Baldric]

///two comedians///
Well that's a good start, are they going all Happy Clappy?

[wolf63]

They sound like a cult. Do you think that they will try and convert the religious amongst us to Athiesm ?

:-)

[SirOracle]

Wolf 63 I think this cult already exists ( even on this site )

Known as J Ws.

[pixie373]

No, but the pub has the same effect.

[naomi24]

No, I haven't been to anything like this. Why would anyone want to?

[ludwig]

It's not my cup of tea. I'd rather go down the pub with pixie.

[pugwashjw]

"What if we all stopped believing in God?'' ...you might as well ask..." what if we all believed the tax office does not exist"...or the police dept. that processes speeding fines...
It does not matter WHAT we believe, because it changes nothing.
NOT believing does not negate Jehovah God.
(Matthew 24:39) and they took no note until the Flood came and swept them all away, so the presence of the Son of man will be.
None of them believed Noah's warning.

[SirOracle]

Pugwash When can I expect to receive a reply to my question to you dated 6th May @ 04.02 hrs.?

I am eagerly awaiting your answer.

[naomi24]

pugwashjw, yes indeed - the almighty flood designed by the less-than-almighty Jehovah to rectify his almighty error - and still it didn't work. With his appalling track record do you really trust him to do what you expect him to do? I wouldn’t.

You have some catching up to do. You owe me an answer too.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Society-and-Culture/Religion-and-Spirituality/Question1334112-2.html

06:49 Wed 07th May 2014

Ludwig and Pixie, wait for me.

[mibn2cweus]

//"What if we all stopped believing in God?'' ...you might as well ask..." what if we all believed the tax office does not exist"...or the police dept. that processes speeding fines...//

Taxes and police, don't mind at all adding those two items to my list of things that exist only as a consequence of the arbitrary beliefs of an irrational minority.

[ludwig]

// It looks to me that in this case Atheism is becoming a religion in it's own right //

Well, from the looks of the website they're trying to avoid billing it as an atheist thing, or an anti-religion thing. It's just a Sunday congregation of people without religion.

Personally I'm ok with congregating to celebrate a specific event like a wedding, birthday, jubilee, whatever, but when it's a regular thing to celebrate something vague like 'life', there's an element of weirdness built in that tells me it's a club I don't want to be part of.
But you know, good luck to them.

[naomi24]

^^ Are you coming to the pub?

[naomi24]

^That was to Mibs.

[Baldric]

know one that does a good Breakfast Naomi?

[naomi24]

No doubt we'll find one, Baldric. :o)

[vulcan42]

pugwashjw, how exactly did Noah warn everybody? not everybody had a mobile.

[goodlife]

Well believing in a man-made Utopia—an impossible dream.

If God is taken out of the equation, then you are in a situation similar to that described by the historian Paul Johnson in his book A History of the Modern World. He wrote that one of the underlying evils contributing to the “catastrophic failures and tragedies” of our century is “the arrogant belief that men and women could solve all the mysteries of the universe by their own unaided intellects.


I believe this Isaiah 2:2-4.is a guarantee, it is happening now all around the world.

[naomi24]

Would this be the Paul Johnson you admire so much, Goodlife?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Johnson_(writer)

[vulcan42]

" “the arrogant belief that men and women could solve all the mysteries of the universe by their own unaided intellects."
It is also an arrogant belief that men and women are important enough to have an everlasting life.