RE: Atheism is a religion
January 7, 2012 at 11:27 pm
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2012 at 11:28 pm by Cyberman.)
I'm not going to be dragged into your power games. I've described to you how language works in a dictionary setting. If you want to define the word religion to mean something akin to a club, feel free. Such an organistion is frequently referred to in such a way. A person may follow a sports team religiously, meaning s/he never misses a game, collects all the memorabilia, wears the team's colours etc. It would be a tiny, scary percentage of such people who actually worship the team and observe the kinds of practises associated with a true recognised religion; praying to the team members, arcane rituals meant to symbolise things such as divine majesty and symbolic sacrifice (or even actual sacrifices). You seem to want to conflate the two usages of the word.
Interesting sidenote: I understand the word 'atheist' was originally applied to xtians, as they didn't believe in or worship the Roman gods. Over time the usage has shifted though the context remains essentially the same.
Interesting sidenote: I understand the word 'atheist' was originally applied to xtians, as they didn't believe in or worship the Roman gods. Over time the usage has shifted though the context remains essentially the same.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
