RE: Why do religious people desperately want to class Atheism as a religion?
November 23, 2015 at 1:36 pm
(This post was last modified: November 23, 2015 at 1:38 pm by TheMonster.)
(November 23, 2015 at 1:31 pm)Brakeman Wrote: 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."
That is a really good comparison. It boggles my mind how they will convince us to be Christian if we hypothetically accept their viewpoint that atheism is a religion. It does not really help them convert us in any way! Like what sort of new arguments can they use?
(November 23, 2015 at 1:28 pm)Kingpin Wrote: It's a tactic. The argument goes something like this:
Atheism is a religion in that it is a worldview and a belief that no God's exist. Atheists claim that it is simply a lack of belief in the existence of any God and then Theists will define it as believing there are no Gods.
Honestly, both definitions are correct in my opinion, but for a theists to argue that Atheism is a religion it is important for them to classify atheism as a belief. Because then they can use the common quip, "Oh I thought you believed it to be true?" It's a word game honestly. Do i believe Atheism is a religion? By the definition of religion, no. Is Atheism a belief system? No (system being the qualifier). Is Atheism a belief? That can be argued.
I will argue that it is not a belief. It is the lack of a belief.
This does not however mean that atheists are not free to believe in other things.
