RE: Atheism
July 24, 2018 at 9:55 pm
(This post was last modified: July 24, 2018 at 10:46 pm by Amarok.)
Quote:Or you could just use the word atheist...Nope because that's not what atheist means .An atheist is simple someone in a state or condition of Atheism( In an absence of belief )
Quote:Just as you would file a theistic religion under theism, you'd file an atheist religion under atheism.Nope because those are not opposites Atheism is only the absence of a belief it can't be a belief itself.And any attempt at doing this can only be a mimicry of religious practices.
Quote:Take 'Sunday Assembly' for example, a religious organization of atheists that claim to be like a church without the 'God bit".Nope Atheism is devoid of ideology these people are simply delusional if they say otherwise . There is no atheist system of beliefs this is simply a group of people who disbelieve and do weird rituals in mimicry of religion . It a social club with a religious looking motif.
https://www.sundayassembly.com/
Quote: Wrote:This is a notice that I am quitting the work that I was doing day-to-day and using my time as CEO (I’m not going anywhere!) to do the thing that is needed more than ever – devoting as much of my energies as possible to spreading the word of what Sunday Assembly does
Would you not file a godless church under atheism, the same way you'd file a god worshiping church under thei
(July 24, 2018 at 4:24 am)Huggy74 Wrote: Metabolism refers to a system...There is so much fail in this post .
So much fail in that post.
Quote:Is metabolism a doctrine? Is anachronism a practice? Not every word that ends in "ism" is a system of beliefs or an "ism" in the way people usually mean it. Failure to realize this can be behind other errors here.Way to totally miss the writers point Huggy and misuse the word system in the context the authors using it . As well as preforming the tired trick of hyper focusing on one word and ignoring the rest of the quote and it's overall point .
Quote:the suffix "ism" also means a "state, condition, attribute, or qualityAtheism a state or condition of absence of belief in god or gods
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