# Atheists/Agnostics: Would you join an Atheist Social Club? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 28, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-agnostics-would-you-join-an-atheist-social-club/374535 "2006-09-28T21:29:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-agnostics-would-you-join-an-atheist-social-club/374535/41 "2006-09-29T17:01:25Z")
Cake, gifts…wow, if I wasn’t such an atheists, those things might cave me, except for the fact I can make/buy cakes and I love gifts AND Christmas, call it what you want, to me, it’s sitting under the tree staring at the lights listening to christmas carols. We have a decent skeptic association here in town, I’ve never been motivated enough to actually attend. Like others have said, I don’t believe, nor do I want to sit around and talk about not believing. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-agnostics-would-you-join-an-atheist-social-club/374535/42 "2006-09-29T17:05:42Z")
No, but I don’t really join any clubs. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-agnostics-would-you-join-an-atheist-social-club/374535/43 "2006-09-29T17:13:44Z")
I wouldn’t, because I’m anti-social. ---
**Author:** ![Goodling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@Goodling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goodling)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-agnostics-would-you-join-an-atheist-social-club/374535/44 "2006-09-29T17:42:54Z")
I definitely wouldn’t. I’d sooner join a club that discusses the different ways to assemble a cardboard box. At least then I’d get something somewhat useful and not be wasting my time. ---
**Author:** ![Ins\_Outs\_What-have-yous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8797f3/32.png) [@Ins\_Outs\_What-have-yous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ins_Outs_What-have-yous)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-agnostics-would-you-join-an-atheist-social-club/374535/45 "2006-09-29T17:50:18Z")
Not me…I have other things to do. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-agnostics-would-you-join-an-atheist-social-club/374535/46 "2006-09-29T18:56:58Z")
I never even got the memo that we were at war with Christmas! Sorry it took me so long to enlist, when do we invade the North Pole? ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-agnostics-would-you-join-an-atheist-social-club/374535/47 "2006-09-30T00:43:21Z")
Sounds like a drag. The only thing I really miss about church is the hymns, and I can’t picture a bunch of athiests getting together and singing “What A Friend We Have in Jesus.” (This is partly why I could never be a Unitarian–they’ve got lousy music.) ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-agnostics-would-you-join-an-atheist-social-club/374535/48 "2006-09-30T01:24:27Z")
No, because I’d rather go birdwatching or be in a book group. That’s probably because although I enjoy a certain amount of discussion of religion and ethics, I’m not interested in engaging in an ongoing activity associated with it. Somehow ‘agnostic church’ just seems like going to church. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Clam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@Happy\_Clam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Clam)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-agnostics-would-you-join-an-atheist-social-club/374535/49 "2006-09-30T02:32:27Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] I’ve heard their Inquisitions are fun. You get cake. [/QUOTE] Or DEATH. But mostly cake. ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-agnostics-would-you-join-an-atheist-social-club/374535/50 "2006-10-03T00:50:17Z")
Nope. I’m not a group person. I realized that right about the same time I stopped trying to bullshit myself about believing in God. I don’t need the affirmation, that level of social contact, or the subtle social strictures inherent in any group bigger than a few people. One of the things I realized the last time I went to a church group (I wasn’t always a godless heathen) was that they all obviously needed something that I didn’t. I kind of pitied them for that. Stands to reason that something I pity other people for needing is not something that I want to participate in myself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-agnostics-would-you-join-an-atheist-social-club/374535.md?page=2)