RE: Atheism is a religion
January 2, 2012 at 3:40 pm
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2012 at 3:42 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(January 2, 2012 at 3:32 pm)chipan Wrote: don't think your beliefs don't require faith. science has been wrong over and over again since it's origin. it changes over and over again so to believe in such theories they come up with for the origin of everything requires faith. in 100 years, they will probably come up with new evidence and laugh at the old theories we have today.You know, the difference between the 'truths' that scientific research and development reveals about the world and the 'revelations' from christianity is that science is often wrong because they are trying to figure out the right answers the hard way.
Religion makes up its answers and states that because they didn't change their unproven beliefs, they can somehow claim superiority over how science always 'changes its mind.'
Well, that's an advantage, not a disadvantage. I'll take 'studying for a test and failing the test" over "not studying and just making up the answers for the test" any day of the week.
(January 2, 2012 at 3:32 pm)chipan Wrote: i don't think you caught what i said. the reason i said i'm being picky is b/c athiesm is not just a rejection of christianity. it would be of all religions. otherwise you have a good arguement.
I didn't say it was "just" a rejection of christianity.
I was specific in mentioning christianity, yes, but I was not implying that atheism is a rejection of christianity and no other religion.
Your 'pickyness" doesn't apply.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
