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Yeah, people keep recommending that to me, despite my being a lifelong atheist who's never attended before. Though mostly from different reasons than what you seem to be pushing. Because I don't see the point of just sitting and neither listening to the sermons nor interacting with anyone.
I don't think we have any big enough in Anchorage to fit that description
I've kind of looked at them, and none seem like good fits.
That sounds bigger than most of the churches around here, from what I've seen.
Isn't this both rude, and get in the way of the point of going, which is to meet and interact with new people? Because I don't see any point to just being around a bunch of people.
You say that like I have a problem with "being around a number of other people."
Having never attended a church, and being an unbeliever, I have no idea what those are.
That rules out the closest church, because it's part of a Mexican cult. The "no whites allowed" Samoan church moved elsewhere. So that just leaves the black Baptist church that advertises local Democrat politicians, or the Lutheran church with the woman pastor whose LinkedIn page has the usual rainbow flags.
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