(March 14, 2018 at 11:17 am)robvalue Wrote: Atheism should be more properly compared with theism, though. Theism doesn't imply any sort of philosophy either, further than God belief.
Humanism could be compared to Christianity as fair game.
To make this clearer, there are some some religious atheists (such as Buddhists) who have their "moral philosophy" based on spiritual magical nonsense. So atheism doesn't tell you anything about the person's philosophy.
But, practically speaking, people use religion very commonly as a measure of philosophy. It's rarely an academic, yes or no question of whether or not someone believes in a non-specific deity.
I wish it were that way, but religion has evolve to streamline and simplify morality for the masses (largely under fear of hellfire). While we're moving away from that as a society, the association of religion with the presence of moral belief is still very present in day-to-day situations.
