(October 1, 2011 at 4:06 pm)Ace Otana Wrote:Quote:He said that atheism serves a vital function because it seeks to liberate people from superstition and destroy the oppression of religionError there, atheism is just lack of belief in god's existence. What they're talking about is secular-humanism. Funny how they keep confusing the two.
Superstition can menifest itself in many ways that is orthagonal to theism. Atheism only counters theism, and has no impact on other aspects of superstition.
Most religions, on the other hand, is founded on theism. So atheism does liberate people form the vital, theistic aspects of most religion. But even theistic religions also has non theistic aspects. This atheism does not directly address either.
