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Originally Posted by Dion
Good grief! A wedding ceremony in a church is NOT forcing religion on anyone. For the life of me I can't understand why people get hung up on this! Both my brother and sister are athiests and were married in a church. The same applies for my athiest friends. NOT one of them had any beefs about being married in a church. You'd be surprised my many non believers get married in a church.
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You win. I have selected your comment to respond to firstly, but before I do I have to say how impressed I am at the responses and various opinions of fellow Atheists (even though many of you mispell it!)
With my own badly worded question I intended to ask Atheists IF they would in their own life allow circumcision, baptism, weddings in a church, IF it was for them. Not if it was for others. I will personally not miss such events for family and friends simply out of belief even though I'm 100% sure they all understand I am there for them, not the religion.
As to being supportive of marriage in a church as an atheist... Well the big thing is Religion uses ceremony/tradition in order to perpetuate its existance, it is no coincidence that it uses birth, marriage, death as MAJOR ceremonies to re-enforce religion to people because no one can escape these important moments in a average lifespan.
So like much of theism and human history.. Do you support ceremonies that support a system that goes against your own for societal pressures. Conformity is a KEY element of religion and cults. As an Atheist, the idea we just be conformist and hide in the background concerns me, and I will explain more completely in my next post as best as I can.