I have no problem at all with attending concerts or other performances in churches. I also have no problem entering them, looking round them, maybe even attending Evensong in the C of E ones. Or lighting candles for my dad and mum. I find constant thoughts about the perceived evils of the historical Christian movement to be too much to bother about really.

I don't get the original poster, Deckman, placing quotes round the word "church". As far as I'm concerned a church is a fairly obvious, and large, object, which really needs no qualification.

And I do agree with Big Mick about breast-beating atheists moaning about churches giving off bad vibes (man). Can't have it both ways folks, if you don't have a belief system, you don't have one!

Off at a slight tangent, one of the best er, "folkie" evenings I've ever experienced was Southwark Cathedral Christmas 1971, when Carole Pegg (and I think Bob) sang "Christ made a trance on Friday view" which contained the superb line "Oh Hell is deep and Hell is dark and Hell is full of mice". Song collected from gypsies I believe.