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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 4:32 pm

(November 23, 2015 at 4:05 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: It's definitely not a religion, but it does at least "feel" like an ideology to me sometimes, as an outsider looking in. An ideology in the sense that a lot of atheists have a set of common ideals and ideas that go beyond just the disbelief in God.

Sure, but that's not because we're atheists or because there's an atheist doctrine.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

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