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    1 year ago

    As a critical thinker, church is unlikely to be high on your list of socializing options - unless you’re conducting some kind of experiment.

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        As someone who sees religion as a scourge on society and the unfettered, tax-free existence of churches as little more than a symptom, I wasn’t crazy about the possible implication that church attendance was required in order for one to be considered prosocial.

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          I do if its a badly-behaving church that is doing that crap, otherwise they can really be a positive fixture of the community if its done right

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      Its not about the god stuff, its about community and getting out to meet and socialize with it. God is just the social lubricant in place of alcohol but lots of cool people, musicians particularly, younger people like myself to make friends, lunches, prizes, volunteering to help people in non-religious services, etc.

      Don’t give a flying fuck about god, “he” is most likely nothing more than a simulacrum at this point (as he always was), its just good people and really accepting ones depending on the church. Mine def is