One life, and this is it.
The Assembly describes itself as a network of secular communities gathered to celebrate the one life we know we have. That is the closest thing it has to a doctrinal statement and it is doing a lot of work.
The Assembly is unusual on this site for having almost no content to describe. It states that it is a network of secular communities who gather to celebrate this one life we know we have, and stops; there is no cosmology, no ethic beyond the motto, no canon, no founder-teaching and nothing to assent to. The charter makes this explicit by committing the movement to having no doctrine, and adds that it will not tell people who do believe in something supernatural that they are wrong. Whether that is admirable restraint or an absence at the centre is precisely the argument the movement has been having with itself and with organised atheism since its second year.
a network of secular (non-religious) communities who gather to celebrate this one life we know we have
The Sunday Assembly, sundayassembly.orgThe movement's own self-description on its front page — as close to a doctrinal statement as the charter permits.
The same ground, other faiths
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