I already did. For instance, you claimed that you don't see an atheist meeting place on every corner. Indeed there are not. However, as mentioned earlier, places like California have "humanist centers" where atheists go to take their kids and to meet with other atheists to discuss their "beliefs" (or whatever), to counter their Christian neighbors who go to church every Sunday.
In fact, I've mentioned several times, as there was a Time magazine article done on it (I called them the "un-churches). It's been discussed here before; Deicide thinks such places are stupid.
Recap:
On Sunday mornings, most parents who don't believe in the Christian God, or any god at all, are probably making brunch or cheering at their kids' soccer game, or running errands or, with luck, sleeping in. Without religion, there's no need for church, right?
Maybe. But some nonbelievers are beginning to think they might need something for their children. "When you have kids," says Julie Willey, a design engineer, "you start to notice that your co-workers or friends have church groups to help teach their kids values and to be able to lean on." So every week, Willey, who was raised Buddhist and says she has never believed in God, and her husband pack their four kids into their blue minivan and head to the Humanist Community Center in Palo Alto, Calif., for atheist Sunday school.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1686828,00.html
A more recent article on this same place:
'We Make Our Own Heaven'
Atheist Minority Finds Spiritual Home in Palo Alto
It is hard not to notice the bells that ring on Sunday morning. But at churches, synagogues and mosques around the globe there are some for whom that religion is lost. This group is part of America's atheist minority.
Non-believers find humanist community in Palo Alto.While Christians, Muslims and Jews can celebrate their beliefs, and fellowship in the company of others in churches, mosques and synagogues, where can non-believers find a spiritual home?
One answer lies in Palo Alto, Calif., if you spot the sign by the roadside. It's at the Humanist Community, where for a few hours every Sunday the humanists, as they call themselves, come together in what one might call a congregation. It even has its own Sunday school.
Without church bells, but with music, this group of humanists believe in a lot of things – but God isn't one of them.....
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/FaithMatters/story?id=4539323&page=1
I didn't make up this place, Straw, and obviously I'm not the only one who can see it. Now, if you're done with your denials, perhaps the discussion can pick up.
McWay - you've listed one example of one group in a very progressive city and jut the fact that they get together is NOT Proselytizing.
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Main Entry: pros·e·ly·tize
Pronunciation: \ˈprä-s(ə-)lə-ˌtīz\
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): pros·e·ly·tized; pros·e·ly·tiz·ing
Date: 1679
intransitive verb
1 :
to induce someone to convert to one's faith 2 :
to recruit someone to join one's party, institution, or cause transitive verb
: to recruit or convert especially to a new faith, institution, or cause
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I've lived in the bay area ~ 25 years and I go to Palo Alto all the time and I've never heard or seen this group so they're not doing a very good job recruiting people to their belief system.
News Flash - atheist/agnostics/non-christians do exist but they don't appear to do much if any "proselytizing. Christians on the other hand go all over the planet trying to spread the "good news" that from the moment you're born you're condemned to an eternity of suffering unless you accept JC as your personal saviour.
Frankly, I wish atheist would actually proselytize. The human race needs something to counter-balance to the "mind virus" of christianity that is swarming the planet