RE: Why do religious people desperately want to class Atheism as a religion?
November 23, 2015 at 2:00 pm
(November 23, 2015 at 1:19 pm)TheMonster Wrote: This has been bugging me recently. Why do theists try to call atheism a religion? It makes no sense!
Religion is defined as the belief in and worship of a super-human controlling power, and atheism is precisely not that!!
When i come across websites like this (see below), I cannot just stop and shake my head at their infallible reasoning skills!
Why do religious people want atheism to be classed as religion? In a sense are they admitting that their views are idiotic?
http://debunkingatheists.blogspot.co.uk/...igion.html
http://creation.com/atheism-a-religion
That is not exclusive to believers. Very few, but some, a handful of atheists want it classified as a religion not because they agree with it, but because they want the same legal protections religion has. I think that is a bad tactic. I think you can have laws that protect all labels and all individuals in a secular society without classifying it a religion.
And some others have literally started "atheist churches" as a way to compete with religion. I also think that is a bad tactic. Not referring to legality, just don't see it as a good idea.
But no, "atheist" is not a religion. That is like calling "off" a TV channel. Atheists don't always agree on every topic all the time.
