Peter Foster: Inside one of the U.S. Bible Belt’s growing number of atheist ‘churches’ [View all]

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Peter Foster: Inside one of the U.S. Bible Belt’s growing number of atheist ‘churches’
Peter Foster, Special to National Post | August 12, 2014 6:35 AM ET

Viewed from the outside, the pointy-roofed building in a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee deep in the heart of America’s Bible Belt, looks very much like a church.

And stepping inside, where a congregation is swaying along to music, listening to sermons and discussing ways to help their local community, it sounds very much like a church too.

There is, however, one rather fundamental missing ingredient that sets this congregation apart from the hundreds of others turning out to worship this Sunday morning in Nashville: this is a church without God.

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Started in London in January 2013 by a pair of British stand-up comedians, Sunday Assembly offers a church experience but without the “God part” and, according to organizers, it is starting to catch on in America.