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Coming from a similar evangelical background to the person above, I can say that the community is very different than that of a club or sports league. I'm not d
by tenaciousDaniel 9y ago
Coming from a similar evangelical background to the person above, I can say that the community is very different than that of a club or sports league. I'm not diminishing the community that you can get out of it - even seemingly-trivial associations can become profound. Some of the strongest connections I've had with people have been with co-workers.
But a community centered around a particular framework, with a particular set of goals that extend beyond even the lifespan of the people involved, combined with an outlet for collective grief/ecstasy. It's hard to describe if you haven't grown up in it, but it's different from any other community I've experienced.
- mercer 9y agoI'll second this. A book club, or any other gathering I've experienced (and I've searched frantically), pales in comparison to the 'smallgroups' that were part of my religious world. The closest I came to that experience in a non-religious way were some of the Alain de Botton style 'Church for Atheist' meetups. And even then only the ones that were organized by an overtly religious person!