How can an atheist or an agnostic go to church?
This is one of the things about us that puzzles some people. Why would an agnostic (atheist, humanist, free-thinker…) go to church? Simple. We give people a place to explore and grow spiritually, even if they grow in different directions. We provide religious education for their children, so that they can make an informed choice when it comes time for them to choose a religion. We offer adult religious education too, in our worship services and in small groups. And in our faith, science and humanism have a place in our search for truth and meaning. In the churches of our forebears, new scientific and social ideas – from Newtonian physics, to evolution, to psychology, to relativity – found ready acceptance.
This is one of the things about us that puzzles some people. Why would an agnostic (atheist, humanist, free-thinker…) go to church? Simple. We give people a place to explore and grow spiritually, even if they grow in different directions. We provide religious education for their children, so that they can make an informed choice when it comes time for them to choose a religion. We offer adult religious education too, in our worship services and in small groups. And in our faith, science and humanism have a place in our search for truth and meaning. In the churches of our forebears, new scientific and social ideas – from Newtonian physics, to evolution, to psychology, to relativity – found ready acceptance. Indeed, some of the greatest scientists and social reformers of history were either privately or publicly Unitarian or Universalist: Joseph Priestley (an Unitarian theologian and chemist who discovered eight distinct gases, including oxygen, disproving the commonly held view that t
