RE: Antitheism
February 3, 2016 at 6:27 am
(This post was last modified: February 3, 2016 at 6:28 am by Excited Penguin.)
(February 3, 2016 at 5:07 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:If you bothered to check the source for that wikipedia bit about theism it's Webster Dictionary. Yet no such source is to be found for the corresponding first sentence of the wikipedia article for religion.(February 3, 2016 at 4:54 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: Theism is essentially religion.
You're wrong, but lack the guts to admit it:
Quote:Theism, in the field of comparative religion, is the belief in the existence of deities.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theism
Quote:Religion is a cultural system of behaviors and practices, world views, ethics, and social organisation that relate humanity to an order of existence.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion
I'll stop here to help you make the distinction between an encyclopedia and a dictionary.
Quote:Encyclopedia - a book or set of books giving information on many subjects or on many aspects of one subject and typically arranged alphabetically.
Quote:Dictionary - a book or electronic resource that lists the words of a language (typically in alphabetical order) and gives their meaning, or gives the equivalent words in a different language, often also providing information about pronunciation, origin, and usage.
As it happens, that first sentence about religion in that wikipedia article seems to be hilariously wrong. What the fuck does a order of existence mean?
That you, of all people, would use that incredibly flawed, biased and unprofessional source of information to correct me is simply ridiculous.
Nevertheless, even by these definitions, my point stands. Belief in God(s) is a form of religion. That is what I mean when I say theism is essentially religion.