Is atheism a belief?

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as everything to do with atheism when it's incorporated into the religion.  

Nope

Why do you need bake sales? 

Hold and social experiment  is not equal to your depiction 

Now you have atheists trying to have bake sales to prove their belief (or disbelief).  

Or they are just messing with religious people 

It's kinds weird though that instead of money you have to "offer your soul" to get a cookie. 

Are you on drugs ?

 So harass the public with a bake sale to try to validate your belief (or disbelief)? 

No seriously 

 What happens if I say "no."  Do they refuse to give me a cookie? 

No seriously 

 I guess at this point I am starting to get more of a bias towards atheism.

No seriously 

  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. 

No seriously 

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.

You realize that their being cheeky right 

It’s an interesting experiment in superstition metaphysics. 

Yup and 

I don’t know if people will gratefully accept a cookie, get angry, or shy away. 

Seek help 

I told a Christian guy about it, and he said, no, he wouldn’t be interested in a cookie.

Good for him 

 But why not? Does he really think he has a soul, and if so, what is it?

Yeah whatever

 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.)

So nothing then 

Here’s a blurb I’m working on, to hand out at the event.

Have fun with that

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There was a time when I would have been hesitant to 'deny the holy spirit' as one atheist challenge had it, given that was the one unforgivable sin.  I didn't believe in God, but that seemed to be just needlessly tempting fate and daring the fates to condemn you.  If nothing else, it points out the power that these ideas have in our lives, even in the modern world.  It's somewhat frightening when you think about it.

He thinks a social experiment equal trying to prove a religion

No, I think it's people being pests to try to make themselves feel validated.  That's why I said it makes me feel certain biases.  As a whole, I don't having any ill-feelings directed at anybody for simply being an "atheist" no matter how they choose to define it.  But when you have atheists running around bothering everybody, and that I find rather annoying.  Theists do this too though, and I get annoyed by it as well at times.  Believe what you believe and treat others kindly.  If someone wants you to share, then great, share away.  If someone doesn't want to listen to you share, don't force it on them.  If an atheist shows up on my doorstep, they can come inside and be treated like family.  If they show up on my doorstep offering me a "cookie for my soul" they will have approximately 15 seconds to disappear or they'll have two hounds attached to their behind.