RE: Yes, Atheism is a Religion
December 17, 2015 at 5:35 pm
(This post was last modified: December 17, 2015 at 6:09 pm by God of Mr. Hanky.)
(December 17, 2015 at 5:06 pm)Reflex Wrote:(December 17, 2015 at 3:57 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Not at all.
First of all, atheism is not a "religious belief". It is the lack of religious beliefs.
Atheism has no doctrine, dogma, common text, leader. It is not even a worldview. Which are all reasons why theists do congregate in churches, mosques and temples.
Personally, I think the idea of "atheists churches" is ridiculous, but I also understand some people, fresh from the mental shackles that is theism, may miss some of what their religion provided. A community of a bunch of like minded people congregating once a week.
There is also something called "Sunday Assembly"
Ridiculous or not, some atheists do emulate their religious brethren.
No doctrine? No dogma? No common text? No leader or worldview? We seem to be living in different worlds. It's special pleading if you don't count Darwin's Origin of Species as a common text. No leaders? What about Dawkins and his ilk? They don't count? They're the high priests of vocal atheism. To say atheism has no worldview is like a fish saying there is no water: it's so pervasive it's invisible. Society never tires of using and abusing the media as a weapon of propaganda to get its religiously anti-religion across. It teaches us that atheists are open-minded and reasonable people who believe in the scientific method and who reject superstition. They are writers, scholars and experts who never misrepresent the facts or misuse words, while religionists are retarded Neanderthals who refuse to be persuaded by the brilliance of atheistic arguments, which of course only reinforces how stupid those knuckle-dragging religious types are.
This narrative is repeated ad nauseam in our popular culture: atheists are smart, theists are stupid; atheists love science; theists hate science; atheism is clever, superstitious religion is foolish; atheism is open-minded and tolerant; religion is dogmatic and intolerant; atheism does not seek to impose its views on others; religion seeks to impose its views on others. Four legs good, two legs bad.
There is no technology atheists will not pervert to their cause. The lessons are pumped into our children in government classrooms (for that is what “public schools” are – government indoctrination camps where reading and math have been supplanted by cultural indoctrination to secular humanist ideology). Those lessons are repeated in our television programs. Those lessons are recited dutifully by our news anchors. The goal, apparently, is to bludgeon religionists, and Christians in particular, into silence with the supremacy of their “science” and “reason.”
Technically, one is quite correct to say atheism is not a religion, but it certainly has all the hallmarks of one.
No special pleading here at all, but there's a buttload of whining coming from your end.
What did I just say in my last post on infallible ideas? The Origin of Species isn't infallible either, and the more which modern scientists learn, the more imperfect it becomes. The content didn't even follow what its title suggested, for one! But it was good for a first attempt to publicly address and explain the idea that life evolved from simple to more complex forms, and it formed a solid basis for a theory which is unlikely to be written off by future scientists. Scientists accept natural selection as an explanation which answers in large part how we came to exist, not because of who told them of it, and not for fear of not believing it, but simply because they see enough good sense in it and seen enough supporting evidence to convince them!
Quote:There is no technology atheists will not pervert to their cause. The lessons are pumped into our children in government classrooms (for that is what “public schools” are – government indoctrination camps where reading and math have been supplanted by cultural indoctrination to secular humanist ideology). Those lessons are repeated in our television programs. Those lessons are recited dutifully by our news anchors. The goal, apparently, is to bludgeon religionists, and Christians in particular, into silence with the supremacy of their “science” and “reason.”Science is the search for truth, so no scientist would teach what isn't believed true according to analysis of culturally empirical evidence without vile shitheads like you pointing a gun at their heads to force your lies down children's throats - go find yourself another courthouse to go and fuck yourself on the steps of! You know it's a game you will ultimately lose, but just like the Islamic terrorists you are trying to take everyone who you can touch down with you.
You who would enslave the American people by force-feeding them lies don't deserve to live in any sort of free society, which you hate so much that you will destroy, and will be satisfied only while there's more freedom for others that you can destroy, until finally that oppression which you helped create turns it's ugly snout toward yourselves. Now that's an arena event worthy of the Romans, but I would enjoy the justice of seeing you in that position!
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