Comments on: To atheists: A secularist alliance is needed http://dvera.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/atheists-alliance/ Everything the religious right wing is against, I am for! (Well, almost everything.) Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:39:53 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: mooreroom http://dvera.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/atheists-alliance/#comment-92 mooreroom Thu, 08 May 2008 17:56:01 +0000 http://dvera.wordpress.com/?p=57#comment-92 Many years ago I took a job as a "sexton" - Anglican church lingo for "custodian" - at a local Episcopal Church. I have been an atheist all of my life, as well as queer-friendly and with tendencies toward the red areas of the political spectrum. But my main exposure to churches up to that point had been with fundamentalist Southern Baptists and a week in a Bible-based summer camp as a child that left deep impressions, none of them positive. So I was pleased to see the Episcopal Church - at least this one - as a welcoming place for Reds of all stripes and quite a large presence of gays and lesbians. Intellectually I knew that churches had played important roles in many progressive movements of the past, but there I learned the significant roles of Christians in the Socialist Movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the anti-war movement of the 60s & 70s. Of course, there was the Civil Rights movement, the most church-led example in recent history. So, in short, good post Diane! Many years ago I took a job as a “sexton” – Anglican church lingo for “custodian” – at a local Episcopal Church. I have been an atheist all of my life, as well as queer-friendly and with tendencies toward the red areas of the political spectrum. But my main exposure to churches up to that point had been with fundamentalist Southern Baptists and a week in a Bible-based summer camp as a child that left deep impressions, none of them positive. So I was pleased to see the Episcopal Church – at least this one – as a welcoming place for Reds of all stripes and quite a large presence of gays and lesbians. Intellectually I knew that churches had played important roles in many progressive movements of the past, but there I learned the significant roles of Christians in the Socialist Movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the anti-war movement of the 60s & 70s. Of course, there was the Civil Rights movement, the most church-led example in recent history.

So, in short, good post Diane!

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