However, since you ask the question, I’ll give you the somewhat longer answer.

My wife and I attended HSS gatherings when we first got into humanism. However, they are on Monday evenings. We have two young children – a two-year-old and an infant – and there’s no way we could make it to those meetings, or to the Skeptics in the Pub meetings. At least, we couldn’t do it as a family.

The Unitarians – whose general approach is at least compatible with humanism, though not identical – meet in the middle of the day on Sunday, which is much more manageable. They even have a children’s program, which means we get an hour of childfree relaxation every week while our 2-year-old daughter draws pictures and sings songs. (Indoctrination-free, I assure you.) We get much of the same benefit from Unitarian gatherings that we got from the HSS meetings (a sense of community, the company of rational and compassionate people, diversity of opinion, open-mindedness, etc), and none of the disadvantages of attending a more conventional church (having to tacitly accept beliefs that we find false and/or morally dubious).

So like I said, why not?

“What’s the point in being a member of a Unitarian congregation when you’re an atheist?”