Is there such a thing as an Atheist community or communities?

[SusanDoris]

https://www.atheismuk.com/

Membership, website, meetings, forum .. I'd say it counts as a community.

Interesting article by Anna Gonzales - thank you for posting.

[jeremyp]

Is there actually a defined atheist society or organisation in the UK - genuine question as I'm not sure.

There are certainly secular organisations (e.g. NSS) - but secularism does not equal atheism and there are plenty of religious people who believe strongly in secularism.

Despite the name, I'm not entirely confident that its aims are to promote secularism rather than atheism.

[ProfessorDavey]

Despite the name, I'm not entirely confident that its aims are to promote secularism rather than atheism.

What the NSS?

I'd have thought it's aims are entirely secular rather than atheistic.

'We campaign for a secular state in which all citizens are free to practise their faith, change it, or have no faith at all. We promote secularism as the surest guarantor of religious freedom and the best means to foster a fair and open society, in which people of all religions and none can live together as equal citizens.'

[ProfessorDavey]

This one?

https://www.atheismuk.com/

Thanks ... never heard of them before.

Wonder if there are any of the atheists here who are members?

[SusanDoris]

Thanks ... never heard of them before.

Wonder if there are any of the atheists here who are members?

I listened to the various comments and to the end of the article, but since the last contribution on what seems to be the forum was 2017(?) , they don't seem to be very active!  What do you think?

[ProfessorDavey]

I listened to the various comments and to the end of the article, but since the last contribution on what seems to be the forum was 2017(?) , they don't seem to be very active!  What do you think?

They are described as a micro company - their account suggest turnover of perhaps a couple of thousand pounds, which suggests they have membership of less than 100 people.

So they may be an atheist community, but a teeny, tiny one - given that there are perhaps 10 million (maybe more) atheists in the UK, their hit rate doesn't seem great

[Udayana]

On the whole there can't be much that atheists have to discuss between themselves not covered by non-atheist specific sites. Hence, possibly, the posts about reopening the forum to the religious.

On this forum new topics on atheism itself are very rare - we just get the same set of repeated arguments on the Searching for God thread.

If there is no "god", does it matter at all? You can attempt to dissuade believers, but if faith is not based on reason, to what end?

[jeremyp]

What the NSS?

I'd have thought it's aims are entirely secular rather than atheistic.

In the past I've read stories on there that seem to promote atheism rather than secularism. It's fair to say though, that I've been to the site just now and can't find any - even in the opinion section - that fit that description.

[Owlswing]

I can't see there being an "atheist community" as atheists do not have a set of rules and/or a shared belief that they publicly demand, or try to get others, to change their views to .

Atheists are atheists and unless pushed don't give a tu'penny damn what others believe or do not believe.

[ProfessorDavey]

In the past I've read stories on there that seem to promote atheism rather than secularism. It's fair to say though, that I've been to the site just now and can't find any - even in the opinion section - that fit that description.

Perhaps you've been spending too much time listening to Vlad - you'll be describing the NSS as anti-theists next

[Owlswing]

Perhaps you've been spending too much time listening to Vlad - you'll be describing the NSS as anti-theists next

Oh Goddess - I bloody hope not!

[Walter]

Why aren't you a humanist?

I'm a misanthrope . Does that help ?