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Why do religious people desperately want to class Atheism as a religion?

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RE: Why do religious people desperately want to class Atheism as a religion?

November 23, 2015 at 1:31 pm

They do it so that they can simply dismiss it as "just another flavor of belief" as apposed to the real insufficient supporting evidence. When someone says that there isn't any ghosts because of "facts" it shits on the paranormalist's parade as opposed to "Not your ghost but my goblin."

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Why do religious people desperately want to class Atheism as a religion? - by TheMonster - November 23, 2015 at 1:19 pm

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