Welcome to First Imagine Church
A recognized Church for Adults. Celebrate this world. "Imagine there's no heaven".
About Us
Our Mission
To build a community promoting the importance of education and critical thinking for individuals to help create a better society.
We believe in a moral requirement that each individual must follow their own conscience. And that therefore, everyone also has a responsibility to pursue an informed conscience.
In Summa Theologiae, Thomas Aquinas (1224-1275) insists that human beings must:
- Seek truth
- Use reason
- Educate themselves
- Avoid intellectual laziness
- A neglected conscience is blameworthy.
This requires each individual to think for themselves and rejects the blind acceptance of dogma as intellectual laziness, which is blameworthy.
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Creed
Humanity as Our Highest Purpose
First Imagine Church is an adult religious community grounded in shared moral commitments to humanity, devoted to reflective practices concerning meaning, conscience, and responsibility, without requiring nor denying belief in a supernatural being.
Our Activities
Many churches do wonderful things for people: food, shelter, medicine, and education. In addition to fostering Member discussions on ethics and morality, First Imagine Church primarily uses funds from Memberships on its media campaign promoting recognition of our shared responsibility to protect developing young minds. If an informed conscience is demanded, it follows that until a human brain fully develops, this requirement cannot be fully met.
Founders Note
First Imagine Church was founded out of a conviction that conscience matters—and that conscience carries responsibility.
As a recovering Catholic, I remain deeply shaped by the Christian insistence that one must follow conscience, and therefore must work to inform it honestly and humbly. Over time, I became increasingly unsettled by expressions of religion rooted in authority and certainty rather than moral reflection, humility, and care for others—especially when such certainty is pressed into public life and law.
I am particularly concerned for children. Developing minds are powerful, fragile, and deserving of protection. The greatest gift we can offer a child is not a set of answers, but the tools to think, question, and make responsible choices when they are ready. Authority over children is not a license to narrow their horizons, but an obligation to expand them.
First Imagine Church exists to offer a moral community without coercion—grounded in reason, guided by love, and honest about what no one can know for certain. We gather not to tell one another what to believe, but to practice living well together.
You are welcome here exactly as you are.
— RevGeorge Founder, First Imagine Church