RE: Is Atheism a Religion?
August 13, 2011 at 7:21 am
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2011 at 8:07 am by Anymouse.)
(August 3, 2011 at 8:27 pm)Skeptic Wrote:(August 3, 2011 at 8:23 pm)Shell B Wrote: So, disagreeing with someone is somehow tantamount to trying to get them to give up their religion? Therefore, essentially the only way to avoid being accused of attempts at conversion is to agree with everyone?
No, but I've seen posts on this forum from people going out of their way to argue with the religious.
I don't recall anyone going "out of their way" to argue with me (and I am open about being religious, just not out to convert others to my religious thinking).
And one wonders just how much "atheist conversion" is going on at this forum when any religious person who comes here does so of their free will knowing full well what sort of forum this is, posts of their free will, and can likely expect to receive answers from atheists who do not agree with their religious beliefs.
(They might not expect to receive answers to posts from Wiccans, as this is not witchvox.org - but anyone going there also knows what to expect - and Witchvox has to fight off many more Christians claiming they are being "preached at" than the folk on this group.)
It is hardly an "attempt at conversion" any more than if I walk across the street to the Lutheran church and strike up a conversation with the pastor about religion. I would be on their turf, and if they did not burn me on the brand new cross they just erected there, they would be defending their claims. That is their turf.
Likewise, an atheist talking about atheism is not "preaching" on this forum. Unless you were Rickrolled here, you challenged them on their own turf. You are doing the converting, not the atheists. For more on that there is a short YouTube video: youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&ob=av2e
An atheist could only be accused of "attempting to convert Christians" if they went to a Christian forum (I don't know any of those and if I found myself on one would close my browser to avoid tracking.)
Anyone who comes on this forum challenging the opinions or facts that atheists can marshal is not "being converted by atheists" if they get a response. They are getting an answer to their challenges. Is that not why they came here, unless they came to convert people themselves? (otherwise known as "trolling")
James.
"Be ye not lost amongst Precept of Order." - Book of Uterus, 1:5, "Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her."
