Can one be Atheist and Superstitious?

[Diablo]

I think you grow out of superstitions; maybe you grow out of religion too, if you were ever that way inclined.

Sometimes it's not really superstitious: walking under ladders is not a smart thing to do...

[Cyberman]

Maybe religiosity is the sticky residue of superstitions that didn't drain away cleanly.

[Zidneya]

You see, is this kind of disagreement

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One can be atheist and religious.

What?!!!
And you make such a claim based on?….

Lets see..

Atheist - A person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods

Religious - Relating to or believing in a religion

Religion - The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/

Yeah... That totally checks out..

Perhaps I'm being optimistic, but hopefully Polaris is basing it on the fact that there are atheists who are members of a religion. A goodly number of Unitarian Universalists and 'bare-bones' Buddhists are atheists. Raellianism is a whacky religion, but it's an atheistic whacky religion.

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what makes me question the atheists churches. And as you can imagine I made a thread to aboard that topic.

http://atheistforums.org/thread-27458.html

But all I got from that thread was a bunch of false accusations and unanswered questions. However I did talked to a moderator about this kind of stuff and not also he agreed with me, but also said that if I ever keep receiving this kind of treatment in the future is not me that's gonna be banned but instead the ones who will be banned are two users(who's name I won't mention) who constantly leave me talking and appear to focus on disagreeing without giving me a reason. Which it kinda makes me feel relieved because these two persons constantly claim that they are gonna report me and therefor cause my banning. But it's nice and comforting knowing that the moderatos are impartial and not only disagree with them but they agree that not only I'm being aggravated but that the ones who should reconsider their talk are my aggravators.

So now I'm gonna plant my feet and like Insanity I'm gonna say that no atheists can't be religious. And if anyone want's to disagree with me he or she can always contact me via private message and discuss this topic with me. Because I'm not gonna start discussing this again only to be left talking.

[ignoramus]

This is what happens when we try to put labels on things.
Just like there's a million definitions of what god is, there's also just as many on what god isn't!

And since there's no god anyway, we're fighting over "nothing".

[DramaQueen]

This is what happens when we try to put labels on things.
Just like there's a million definitions of what god is, there's also just as many on what god isn't!

And since there's no god anyway, we're fighting over "nothing".

Same thing happens in linguistics.
Language vs Dialect

[GayAtheist]

Atheism is a specialised subset of scepticism, keyed to one topic only - the existence of gods. Everything else is up for grabs as far as atheism goes; and no other determination can be drawn from identifying with such. To that end, you will find atheists who believe in ghosts, UFOs, the antivax movement, that NASA and Kubrick staged the Moon landings, etc etc etc...

As long as the god hypothesis isn't the issue, atheism isn't a factor.

Wrong!

God factor will always come into play when it comes to UFO's/Ghosts/ or even moon landing.

I'll give you an example:
If you believe in ghosts, then you are not an atheist because you believe humans have a soul and an afterlife. Therefore intelligent design exists, because a spirit is energy that once encompassed the biological body.

If you believe in UFO's then the topic that the Annunaki seeded humanity comes into play. If the Annunaki manipulated our DNA then they are our gods by definition. Not the GOD who created them, but our gods (lowercase).

Moon Landing - If you believe it was staged because they are trying to hide that a prior civilization built bases on there, then you lean towards the concept of intelligent design again where someone created humans and Darwinism is a hoax.

To me atheism is the equivelent to extremist muslim/christian. It is the extremist belief in SKEPTICISM of everything and anything. Science is GOD, spirituality is SATAN and one should never believe in spirituality.

[ignoramus]

Wrong on so many levels.

[Little lunch]

I have an Atheist friend who seems to truly believe that he gets more customers than anyone else, no matter what day or shift.
If he changed jobs he would believe his new job gets busier all of a sudden.

If only I could tap that magical power and have a team of people with his bad luck status, I could make millions.

I just couldn't work in that team myself because I'm one of those people that gets all the easy days. :-)

[Losty]

Wrong!

God factor will always come into play when it comes to UFO's/Ghosts/ or even moon landing.

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I'll give you an example:
If you believe in ghosts, then you are not an atheist because you believe humans have a soul and an afterlife. Therefore intelligent design exists, because a spirit is energy that once encompassed the biological body.

If you believe in UFO's then the topic that the Annunaki seeded humanity comes into play. If the Annunaki manipulated our DNA then they are our gods by definition. Not the GOD who created them, but our gods (lowercase).

Moon Landing - If you believe it was staged because they are trying to hide that a prior civilization built bases on there, then you lean towards the concept of intelligent design again where someone created humans and Darwinism is a hoax.

To me atheism is the equivelent to extremist muslim/christian. It is the extremist belief in SKEPTICISM of everything and anything. Science is GOD, spirituality is SATAN and one should never believe in spirituality.

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Who died and made you god?

[governmentIsGOD]

Apprently god died according to atheists. So we need to replace him with a mortal god. Usually a dictator like in the past.