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Sun Oct 27, 2013, 09:11 AM Oct 2013

New atheist church meets in bingo club

IT may seem like a pointless exercise – but a newly-opened church for atheists is proving even non-believers like to have somewhere to congregate.

27/10/13

The Sunday Assembly, which prefers to describe itself as “a godless congregation that celebrate life”, expects to have around 40 members by the end of the year.

Instead of the reverence-inspiring surrounds of a church, however, it meets in the New Empire Bingo Club in Nicolson Street.

Hymns have been replaced with pop songs – with the first service including Don’t Stop by Fleetwood Mac – and sermons with interesting talks, such as an expert from Our Dynamic Earth talking about the 
universe.

As one member puts it: “It’s like a normal church, but without the boring bits.”

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/new-atheist-church-meets-in-bingo-club-1-3159371

I don't care what you say. If they start to play Bingo, it's a religion.

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