{"id":1253,"date":"2013-02-07T12:17:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T18:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2013-02-07T12:17:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T18:17:48","slug":"a-secular-church-in-calgary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/2013\/02\/07\/a-secular-church-in-calgary\/","title":{"rendered":"A secular church in Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Very <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/2013\/01\/30\/calgary-secular-church-first-atheist-church-alberta_n_2583930.html?utm_hp_ref=religion&amp;ir=Religion\">interesting news<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For Korey Peters, deconverting from Christianity to atheism opened a new set of doors &#8211; the doors to Calgary&#8217;s first atheist church.<\/p>\n<p>The unusual idea that grew into Calgary&#8217;s atheist congregation came to the former Christian when he realized he longed for the sense of community and guidance that comes from being part of a church but without all the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/daylight-atheism\/the-calgary-secular-church\" target=\"_hplink\">the horror, ignorance and superstition<\/a>?&#8221; wrote Peters in a guest blog for thinkbig.com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would be awesome to meet Mr. Peters. It&#8217;s not often someone feels discontent and then actually does something productive about it. Kudos to him.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I began to miss the church experience myself&#8230;and I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/editorsroom.5minmedia.com\/video\/517656007?videoid=517656007\" target=\"_hplink\">&#8216;Oh, it would be a good idea to have a church for the non-religious<\/a>,'&#8221; Peters said in a recent interview with HuffPost Live.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can connect with Calgary Secular Church via <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarysecularchurch.org\/\">their website<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/339231279491562\/\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Very interesting news. For Korey Peters, deconverting from Christianity to atheism opened a new set of doors &#8211; the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fyi","tag-fyi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}