Yes it's very annoying, concern for the environment and climate change is another religion. You'd think these religious people might respect our views more if they resemble religion. Ah well you never do get far trying to figure out their reasoning.

This is the thread where I challenged Statler Waldorf to back up his claim that Atheism is a religion.
http://atheistforums.org/thread-6570.html

It was a fail of epic proportions on his part

I've recently decided that I am no longer going to allow it to bother me. Those people are insecure, threatened little babies, who don't care about actualities, but rather, being right. Self-righteous and scared to death that the atheists are going to eat their baby blankets, just like religion ate their common fucking sense.

(December 27, 2011 at 4:23 am)helmespc Wrote: Hockey is my religion, though. I have plenty of proof of the existence of the Stanley Cup.

Don't go saying that to Perhaps and amkerman on the philosophy forum.

(December 27, 2011 at 7:29 am)Zen Badger Wrote: This is the thread where I challenged Statler Waldorf to back up his claim that Atheism is a religion.
http://atheistforums.org/thread-6570.html

It was a fail of epic proportions on his part

Boy! That was a thrilling read, I enjoyed it lol. It was like a soap opera combine with comedy. I even got popcorn. Some of the dumbest arguments gave me a good laugh.

(December 27, 2011 at 1:00 am)passionatefool Wrote: Does it irritates you when religious people say Atheism is a religion? I mean does that statement even make sense? Is this some sort of mental defense thing to make them feel more comfortable? Like "Ha! You are no different. ATHEISM IS A RELIGION!". I don't see how lacking a fundamental belief system in some higher being or faith, which is what religion is, make it a religion? I don't know, I get this A LOT! I'm just about tired of it, in fact I was just in a debate about it, it makes no sense and it irritates me beyond imagination. Some Atheists I know even think science is BS! so No Science isn't a holy scripture or religious scripture either! It isn't based on blind faith.

Okay sorry for the rant.

What one believes can be considered religion. Most folks are a victim of their own imagination. Be careful with how you handle yourself, you could be wrong.

It used to bug me, now it amuses me. I still point out that atheism isn't a religion and neither is theism; but I keep in mind that it's the absolute best argument most of them have.

(December 28, 2011 at 1:08 pm)Old Seer Wrote:

(December 27, 2011 at 1:00 am)passionatefool Wrote: Does it irritates you when religious people say Atheism is a religion? I mean does that statement even make sense? Is this some sort of mental defense thing to make them feel more comfortable? Like "Ha! You are no different. ATHEISM IS A RELIGION!". I don't see how lacking a fundamental belief system in some higher being or faith, which is what religion is, make it a religion? I don't know, I get this A LOT! I'm just about tired of it, in fact I was just in a debate about it, it makes no sense and it irritates me beyond imagination. Some Atheists I know even think science is BS! so No Science isn't a holy scripture or religious scripture either! It isn't based on blind faith.

Okay sorry for the rant.

What one believes can be considered religion. Most folks are a victim of their own imagination. Be careful with how you handle yourself, you could be wrong.

Nothing wrong with being wrong ....just don't repeat it and correct your errors of judgement/ discernment.

(December 28, 2011 at 1:15 pm)KichigaiNeko Wrote:

(December 28, 2011 at 1:08 pm)Old Seer Wrote:

(December 27, 2011 at 1:00 am)passionatefool Wrote: Does it irritates you when religious people say Atheism is a religion? I mean does that statement even make sense? Is this some sort of mental defense thing to make them feel more comfortable? Like "Ha! You are no different. ATHEISM IS A RELIGION!". I don't see how lacking a fundamental belief system in some higher being or faith, which is what religion is, make it a religion? I don't know, I get this A LOT! I'm just about tired of it, in fact I was just in a debate about it, it makes no sense and it irritates me beyond imagination. Some Atheists I know even think science is BS! so No Science isn't a holy scripture or religious scripture either! It isn't based on blind faith.

Okay sorry for the rant.

What one believes can be considered religion. Most folks are a victim of their own imagination. Be careful with how you handle yourself, you could be wrong.

Nothing wrong with being wrong ....just don't repeat it and correct your errors of judgement/ discernment.

What's needed is is a final judge on all that is right and all that is wrong. How can such a one be found. Where would one look. One could look in seemingly endless places and at seemingly endless individuals. So far as I can tell--everyone is wrong, or, everyone is deceived. But, how does one that is deceived know he is deceived. http://atheistforums.org/images/smilies/smile.gif

(December 27, 2011 at 1:00 am)passionatefool Wrote: Does it irritates you when religious people say Atheism is a religion? I mean does that statement even make sense? Is this some sort of mental defense thing to make them feel more comfortable? Like "Ha! You are no different. ATHEISM IS A RELIGION!". I don't see how lacking a fundamental belief system in some higher being or faith, which is what religion is, make it a religion? I don't know, I get this A LOT! I'm just about tired of it, in fact I was just in a debate about it, it makes no sense and it irritates me beyond imagination. Some Atheists I know even think science is BS! so No Science isn't a holy scripture or religious scripture either! It isn't based on blind faith.

Okay sorry for the rant.

It's not the arguement that atheism being a kind of faith that irritates me. It's the reasons behind it.

Theists want atheism to be a religion because they want them and us to be on equal terms by way of saying that "well your beliefs are just as ridiculous".

Their reasonings for this is rooted in a lovely combination of the usual bias and ignorance but they need to bring us to that level because they have no arguements to justify their own faith over the evidence that atheists typically use to coutner their claims and they need to invalidate our claims.

So, it's not really the arguement itself that bugs me, but dispelling the stubborn and ignorant reasoning they use to justify their claims is more annoying.

What's more annoying is arguing points that can be dispelled by a simple google search - like all those points I was making on another thread about relativity. The idiot in question doesn't know a lick about physics and was just repeating what he read about anisotropic synchrony convention (the idea that light travels at half C away from the earth but infinately fast toward the earth - it's an AIG paper that attempts to justify genesis) and all he had to do to learn how we measure the speed of light is through a simple google search to learn that we really don't time light through clock synchronization.
This is, of course, in addition to the fact that he didn't listen to any of my points regarding just how impossible a variable speed of light is given our reliance on C being precisely equal to C at all times from all perspectives.

The most annoying thing though - they don't FUCKING LISTEN. They edit out my main points and respond in such a way that they just repeat what they told me and simply ignore all of my counterpoints.