(November 6, 2017 at 11:53 am)Whateverist Wrote:It says a lot. It says you guys want to make yourself different, but really you are not all too different. You value something above all else (whatever that is, is a god to you), you try to finding meaning in that, and you have your way of defining right and wrong, and have your way of explaining life. There is nothing different. You have a creed, a religion, an ideology, a way of life, and you have a god or gods among many gods. And you centre your attention on people you don't know for sure are worth that attention just like all false religions do.(November 5, 2017 at 2:11 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Everyone has a religion. You would have to redefine religion from their primary meaning in the past to escape this fact.
This century is trying to redefine every word from their original definitions. And what do atheists do, they just look up current dictionaries, and think they understood a long tradition and understanding of a word.
Everyone has that which is necessary to make meaning and find purpose in life. Not everyone draws on what is commonly known as "religion". If you mean to redefine religion as "whatever one uses to make meaning and find purpose in life", then of course you would be correct even though you would have said nothing at all.
This is what it proves.