Why atheism is a belief.

[houseofcantor]

this is a great thread. I had a huge argument with my cultural diversity teacher over this very fact.

she's a christian of sorts and I'm an atheist, and she argued in class one day that one had to have religion behind a belief to make it a belief. I was really angry at that assertion, and argued that my beliefs were just as valid as hers, by all the principles of social justice that Community Services work by [which is what I'm studying].

She then argued that my non-faith based beliefs were less important on the whole...

I really feel like putting a complaint in about her...

Both Temple of Set and my infatuation with Gwyneth Paltrow are good for that little problem.

When it gets down to one-on-one like that, I consider it much better for the atheist to have some aces up his or her sleeve - like some functional idolatry - to counteract their dysfunctional idolatry.

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cunt

What are you, twelve?

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It seems that being an atheist gives you some control and confidence in having a 'valid' position, yet you oddly lack the ability to validate your position.

But Ace is 22, more interested in girls than god; he's got his priorities in order.

I'm 43 and completely in love with a girl that my common sense tells me to leave alone so I had to find some other way to fulfill the requirements of love - and oh yeah, it has requirements - so I made a theology around her and used it to falsify all theology.

Clever, huh? You don't want somebody else's god to do your thinking for you. If the Left-Hand path (like Set) ain't your cup of tea, being "open to the idea of god" is licence for their idea of god. Their idea of god sucks, dude.