Atheists flock to the church
AT 10.30am on a Sunday morning in North London, a congregation is flooding out through the doors of Our Lady & St Joseph Roman Catholic church. I wonder what the god-fearing attendees would make of the service. I am on my way to join in the dilapidated nave of St Paul’s Church, just a few hundred metres up the road.
And wonder I might — since that is the theme of this month’s Sunday Assembly, a gathering for non-believers, agnostics and atheists who want to feel the sense of community that church-going provides, but without sermons on the afterlife and readings from the scriptures.
