May 01 2008
A-Chat WebClient
A-Chat WebClient
*username = your A-Chat username minus the @firstchurchofatheism part
*Attention ministers ordained BEFORE 8/30/2008*
Please read THIS POST concerning your ordination.
This does not affect those ordained AFTER 8/29/08.
May 01 2008
*username = your A-Chat username minus the @firstchurchofatheism part
Apr 30 2008
JUNCTION CITY, Kan. — Like hundreds of young men joining the Army in recent years, Jeremy Hall professes a desire to serve his country while it fights terrorism.
But the short and soft-spoken specialist is at the center of a legal controversy. He has filed a lawsuit alleging he’s been harassed and his constitutional rights have been violated because he doesn’t believe in God. The suit names Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
“I’m not in it for cash,” Hall said. “I want no one else to go what I went through.”
Known as “the atheist guy,” Hall has been called immoral, a devil worshipper and — just as severe to some soldiers — gay, none of which, he says, is true. Hall even drove fellow soldiers to church in Iraq and paused while they prayed before meals.
Apr 13 2008
Written by: Jacki McMaster
When I was an infant, my parents had me baptized. They didn’t want to, but my Grandmother insisted. They agreed to her wishes, because neither of them was very for or against religion.
My mother was raised Christian, Methodist to be specific. The church never felt like home to her. She always told me, “It’s silly to think that you have to go to a specific place once a week to worship God. And it’s even sillier that they make you pay to do it. God is in everything around you. Appreciating the world is prayer enough.”
My father, on the other hand, was raised Jewish. His father was a non-practicing Christian, but his mother attended synagogue regularly and decided to raise her 3 children accordingly. When my father was 12 years old, he decided that he was not going to have his Bar Mitzvah. He didn’t believe in what he was learning, and didn’t want to put in the time and effort necessary to learn the required tasks. His mother was not happy, but allowed him to make his own decision.
Apr 06 2008
We have setup our own instant messenger server just for our Ministers, called A-Chat.
This way you can communicate between each other, the staff, and friends on other networks easily.
The A-Chat network allows you to add your AIM, GoogleTalk, Yahoo, ICQ, MSN, and Gadu accounts, that way you only need one client to talk to everyone!
If you use the suggested free Psi messenger client, simply go to “service discovery”, right click the service you want to add and click register. provide your login credentials, hit save and your done. All your buddies will show up in the list.
If you are a Minister at the FCA you already have a username on our A-Chat Instant Messenger service for FREE. We suggest using the free IM client: Psi but we do offer a WebClient if you don’t want to install anything.
Apr 06 2008
We are updating again. This time we added a page containing a few polls you can vote on. It’s for everyone Atheist or not. Maybe we can start to get a sense of how people feel about common issues.
leave a comment here if you think of any questions you’d like to see added
Apr 06 2008
Let us know your feelings on some issues. Answer only the polls you wish.
Send us your ideas for questions! Most of these questions were submitted by users