I am not religious and have no desire to start being now but sometimes I just want the community people get with church. I am craving connection with the community and feel it’s very healthy for families and neighbors as well. The United States is seriously lacking in third spaces and communities. It’s leading to a serious loneliness epidemic… Just wondering if there is anything that can fill that need for non-religious folks?
To give more details on kind of clubs (while being more EU focused, but I don’t see why the same wouldn’t exists in the US)
Sport clubs, avoid the commercial Gym where everyone lift their own weight, but a team-sport, an outdoor sport requiring to travel means you’ll spend time with other. Some more traditional martial-art even have this drop of oriental philosophy about respecting and helping the others
Political group, you’re on Lemmy, so you may be interested
Volunteer group, stuff like the red-cross, and many more look for volunteers you’ll spend a lot of time with others. Actually when I’ve made my 1st aid course, the trainer told us a couple of time that they look for volunteer to go further, and at a point dropped that the red-cross is a massive dating club.