Religion, How Do I Hate Thee? Let Me Count the Ways.

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9. I've always thought that atheists could vanquish religion if we organized around atheist "churches".

It's the churches that maintain the power, not merely the religion. People need community and religious houses of worship meet that need.

Being atheist is lonely. I miss what I had as a child when my family would go to our neighborhood church on Sunday morning and Sunday night for services and Wednesday night for a community potluck. My kids never had that. We couldn't find anything that was remotely similar for them. At one point, out of desperation, I tried taking them to church, but found it to be so distasteful, I didn't return. The need for community was, and still is, real.