(January 18, 2018 at 10:50 am)Huggy74 Wrote: Also I don't agree that atheism is ONLY not having beliefs in a god, if one wants to be technical, the -ism in atheism denotes a system, this is why I say atheism is indicative of a religion.
Correct - the '-ism' suffix is indicative of a belief system. It's attached to the 'theism' part of the word, to which the 'a-' prefix is the negation. Welcome to this, the very first post you've obviously ever read on this forum.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'