RE: Is atheism a belief?
December 13, 2018 at 1:51 pm
(This post was last modified: December 13, 2018 at 1:52 pm by T0 Th3 M4X.)
(December 13, 2018 at 1:42 pm)Amarok Wrote:Quote:But it has evolved into a major belief system.
No it hasn't it it's been misused
Quote: As a whole, it's not just one thing, but rather many things.
Nope it's one things that's misused
Quote: Churches, hymns, offerings, books, T-shirts, church offerings, religious protections, etc...Nothing too do with atheism
Quote: If something is just an idea, it doesn't need all those things to stay afloat.
Lots of ideas can do those things
Quote: If I say I don't believe in elves, that's all I would need to say.Yup i lack in gods that's all i need to say
Quote:I wouldn't need to make a church for it to try and offer a counter belief.The fact a loony cult is doing that has nothing to do with atheism
Quote: No need for anti-elf hymns and bake sales.See they above
Quote: If you don't believe in something, just don't believe.
Yup atheism
Quote: I don't believe in Bigfoot, but not chasing Bigfoot enthusiast around telling them they're wrong.
Skeptics criticize Bigfoot enthusiastic s all the time because they often present terrible evidence
Quote: That's one of the things I don't quite get about modern atheism.
You don't seem to get much
Quote:They say they don't believe in any God or gods, but they go out of their way to practice the same way that theists do.No they freaking don't stop equating Atheism to that cult
Quote: Sure, they still don't believe in any god, but they incorporate the things that are associated with theism into their collective.No they freaking don't stop equating Atheism to that cult
Has everything to do with atheism when it's incorporated into the religion. Why do you need bake sales? Now you have atheists trying to have bake sales to prove their belief (or disbelief). It's kinds weird though that instead of money you have to "offer your soul" to get a cookie. So harass the public with a bake sale to try to validate your belief (or disbelief)? What happens if I say "no." Do they refuse to give me a cookie? I guess at this point I am starting to get more of a bias towards atheism. Not because I want to, but because of what I see them doing. But I also have certain biases against theists and their claims at times, so I guess it's pretty much the same.
UWA Atheist & Skeptic Society
(from their website)
The UWA Atheist & Skeptic Society is having a Bake Sale on the UWA Oak Lawn this Wednesday (21 Sep 2011) at 1 pm. There’s an unusual twist: Rather than accept money for the baked goods, the club simply requests… your soul.
It’s an interesting experiment in superstition metaphysics. I don’t know if people will gratefully accept a cookie, get angry, or shy away. I told a Christian guy about it, and he said, no, he wouldn’t be interested in a cookie. But why not? Does he really think he has a soul, and if so, what is it? Can it be traded in a Faustian bargain? Does it hit uncomfortably close to C.S. Lewis’s witch, who offers you Turkish Delight but instead only gives you pages and pages of turgid allegory? (Or something. I always was a little fuzzy on Lewis.)
Here’s a blurb I’m working on, to hand out at the event.
