Capitalism - the Ultimate Religion

[Existentialist]

The guy doesn't believe that people should use standardised definitions; his entire purpose here is to abuse and misuse language.

Please note it is incorrect to say I don't believe that people should use standardised definitions. I am not prescriptive about what definitions people use, because I believe that when people are struggling to express their meaning, freedom of expression is essential. As it happens, I have used standardised definitions throughout this thread. It is also incorrect to say that my "entire purpose here is to abuse and misuse language". My purpose is to debate atheism and find out more about it.

If you would like to actually make a positive contribution to this thread, rather than repeatedly calling into question my right to debate in it, you could do worse than to reply to the question I posed to you at the bottom of Post 91. This is pertinent to your own use of dictionaries where you appear to have decided that I cannot use one word because it is not included in the definition of another word.

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I live in Portugal and about half of europe(or the whole thing) follows socialism, which i think it's the middle ground between capitalism and communism

I would agree that Portugal is a social democracy. This is a variant of capitalism, I wouldn't call it "middle ground" between capitalism and communism, I would say it is 1 step an a 1,000-step journey away from capitalism.

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So capitalism is a religion, atheism is a religion, communism is a religion, science is a religion, blah, blah, blah. I eat cereals in the morning. That MUST be a religion!

I suspect you have not read the thread. Capitalism is a religion, atheism isn't, communism does appear to be like one, science not. Please explain what you mean by blah, blah, blah as I think it's slightly ironic that you use this expression and then suggest that I am misusing and abusing the language. The fact that you eat cereals in the morning doesn't to my mind make that activity a religion, in fact it is so trivial I suspect you are attempting to ridicule the thread (you wouldn't be the first!) However by all means come back to me if you wish to argue genuinely that eating cereals in the morning is a religion, I would not want to stamp out you freedom to argue this.