Is it OK to go to church if you don't believe in God?

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There's so many things I love about Church. I love the buildings, the rituals, the music, the choirs, the organ, the routine, the idea of the discipline of doing something on Sunday aside from blobbing around.

Recently I went to a high Anglican church service for the first time in my life (only been to weddings and funerals before) and found it fascinating. But I still don't believe in God and Jesus and the Bible and never will.

Is it wrong to become a regular Church goer in these circs? Is it hypocritical?

Slightly different, I am a Catholic, but quite often go to our local gospel church, a different, not better, service.

I don't think Jesus was just talking about the Pharisees when he said, "These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me."

Of course!

When people say they don't believe in God I always wonder how they would define the God they don't believe in

Can we cite the vengeful, genocidal, jealous God of the OT?

The same one who by the NT has apparently morphed into a reconciliatory seeker of lambs yet still consigns non believers (who as a group might overwhelmingly have led an utterly blameless, even worthy life) with an average lifespan of some 80 years to eternal hellfire?

Very many thanks - what a lot of interesting contributions on this thread! Wonderful food for thought.

I don't think anyone should assume that people going to Church without a belief in God are lonely. I am not lonely and am not looking for a community. I just like the rituals of Church that I wrote about in my OP.

I am not even Christian and visit churches all over the world to look at artifacts and the stained glass. So far, I have not been smitten by lightening. My mother sings in a church choir and is not Christian either, which the management know but they are very keen to retain her, as she has a beautiful voice, and in her rural area, people are slowly dying off and they struggle to find new members.