Louisiana First Atheist Church Service

[Vermiform]

Why not just start a chapter of Jaycees instead?

 

[Btl_Rkt_Sci]

Bingo... If you don't worship Christ, you worship Satan..

 

[JNieman]

Why not just start a chapter of Jaycees instead?

Yea, I was thinking "Moose Lodge" or something like that. Some kind of lodge... I dunno. Maybe they do just want tax exemption.. don't know if they even applied to be tax exempt or whatever you do for that.

 

[Leonidas]

Maybe they call it a church for the tax free benefits.

If they are atheists, they'll get it. No problem.

Tax exempt status is only difficult if a group has traditional American/Christian values.

 

[1funvet]

Bingo... If you don't worship Christ, you worship Satan..

Wonder if they will have Bingo games.

 

[JNieman]

If they are atheists, they'll get it. No problem.

Tax exempt status is only difficult if a group has traditional American/Christian values.

Only if the 'traditional value' includes donations and support of political campaigns or promotion of hate speech which, even then, is rarely pursued.

 

[Emperor]

If they are atheists, they'll get it. No problem.

Tax exempt status is only difficult if a group has traditional American/Christian values.

Or right leaning Constitutionalists, conservative businesses, people with (R)'s by their names, citizens that expect their government to follow laws, anti-illegal immigration and border security folks, etc., etc.

 

[Leonidas]

Only if the 'traditional value' includes donations and support of political campaigns or promotion of hate speech which, even then, is rarely pursued.

So, who is the arbiter of hate speech?

You telling me, with a straight face, that liberal tax exempts don't engage in political activities. You need a new schtick.

 

[JNieman]

So, who is the arbiter of hate speech?

You telling me, with a straight face, that liberal tax exempts don't engage in political activities. You need a new schtick.

I wasn't insinuating anything - if I had someone to single out or an abstract point to make, I'd just come out and say it plainly. I don't make a habit of veiled or coded statements.

I was talking about the basic standards for tax exemption.

Hell, honestly, the group in the OP could just go for being a 501c3. That's not really all that difficult if you're committed to the organization existing.

 

[johnmichael]

Very weird. Sounds like some people lost their faith but still need the comfort of "religion". Seems like the makings of a cult to me. There's nothing to celebrate as an atheist, since it's merely a lack of something. Sorta like dudes who don't play baseball getting together for a baseball game, but there's no baseballs. Just plain weird.

As an Atheist, we have LOTS to celebrate. I'm a regular dude, just like most of you guys...I love shooting guns, I love my Country, and I love eating good food. I celebrate the lives of my wife and I, the natual world and the universe, and the beauty in a newly acquired 1911.

And most Atheists don't "Lose their faith"...we simply choose to believe a different path than our old religious roots. It doesn't make us weird and it doesn't make us smarter/dumber.

 

[johnmichael]

They do it to mock Christianity. I've never seen people attack so much something they "want nothing to do with."

This is inaccurate.

 

[johnmichael]

Bingo... If you don't worship Christ, you worship Satan..

This is the type of language that greatly turns most other religions/atheists off from Christians.

 

[johnmichael]

And I'm not trying to flame anyone, just giving the viewpoint from a 20-year Southern Baptist Christian Believer now turned Atheist.

 

[Emperor]

This is inaccurate.

You can't speak for them (that specific group of individuals), can you?

I am not a believer either, but I don't profess any distinguishing label about it (though I guess technically not believing would make me atheist for the most part). And I certainly don't care to push it in others faces either. By the article alone, it seems they are jubilant about making it known.

That part I don't get!?!

 

[Jack]

Bingo... If you don't worship Christ, you worship Satan..

Yeah, so **** those devil worshiping Jews in Israel 'Murica

 

[johnmichael]

You can't speak for them (that specific group of individuals), can you?

I am not a believer either, but I don't profess any distinguishing label about it (though I guess technically not believing would make me atheist for the most part). And I certainly don't care to push it in others faces either. By the article alone, it seems they are jubilant about making it known.

That part I don't get!?!

I choose the label "Atheist" because nothing else really fits...so, as an Atheist, my goal is not to mock any religion. Will I have a conversation with an interested party about what they believe and why I stopped believing? You bet! I love playing Devil's Advocate in order to show multiple viewpoints and other sides to an argument. But to say that this group of Atheists is having a "Church" service in order to mock Christians is silly and I disagree with it.

 

[SVT]

Yeah, so **** those devil worshiping Jews in Israel 'Murica

 

[2011Corvette]

If they are true atheists I don't believe it is the tax benefits they should be worried about.

 

[JNieman]

You can't speak for them (that specific group of individuals), can you?

No less than anyone else in the thread, at the least.

 

[Emperor]

No less than anyone else in the thread, at the least.

He is by his own words, a DEVOUT Atheist; he trumps me! I'm neutral about the question and ambivalent about the answer.