Most of them can think for themselves, and those who do will either ignore the posters or think they're assholes and move on. Its the zealots who'll go apeshit over this sort of thing and make me laugh.

What's frustrating is that both sides like to believe that their argument is definite fact but can't prove it, so it basically turns into who can shout their idea the loudest.

What I don't understand is how an Atheist group could have a "church". Maybe I'm just hazy on the exact definition on church, but isn't that a place of god, not atheism?

Quote from: War Correspondent Clock;1433561What I don't understand is how an Atheist group could have a "church". Maybe I'm just hazy on the exact definition on church, but isn't that a place of god, not atheism?

Church in the figurative sense of a group of people with a certain religion view.
Some people would call Synagogues "Jewish Churches" and Mosques "Muslim Churches". Its really just semantics, though the word curch is very mainstreamed (unlike Synagogues and Mosques)

They don't call themselves a church, I call them a church. Clearly I know more about their motivations and beliefs than they do.

Quote from: War Correspondent Clock;1433561What I don't understand is how an Atheist group could have a "church". Maybe I'm just hazy on the exact definition on church, but isn't that a place of god, not atheism?

It's because the type of people who assemble to talk about how they're totally not an organized religion are indeed the same kind of factionalistic people organized religion attracts. This also provides a psychological replacement for the tribal factor of organized religion, and it's friends fanaticism and group dependence. They aren't religious, but they maintain all the worst effects of religious organization. Church isn't really just a place where someone worships something. After all, I do that in my bedroom. I don't need a church to be religious. The church is the place people go for the religious socialization. It's the organizing of the religious, the meeting of people who have formed a tribe, the congregation, on the basis of their beliefs. Atheists are still doing this for the same reasons, they just don't have any stories to explain their beliefs. What they're taking away is not religion, it's philosophy and vivid explanation.