RE: Atheism is a religion
January 8, 2012 at 1:36 pm
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2012 at 1:38 pm by LastPoet.)
(January 8, 2012 at 1:22 pm)Lord Summerisle Wrote: Interesting thread, personally I'm leaning towards viewing atheism as a religion of sorts. An atheist taking offense at the insinuation of being part of a religion, reminds me of the hypothetical example of a 0 displaying distain at being referred to as a number.
An atheist once said to me: atheism is a religion in the same way that the non-collecting of stamps is a hobby. I replied - well for non-collectors of stamps, you atheists sure spend an awful lot of time discussing your non-hobby.
Atheism may indeed be this belief that there isn't a higher power due to atheists perceived lack of evidence (or for whatever reasons), but it's still just that - a belief.
Mabe if idiotic religionists kept their beliefs to themselves and inside the churches (where it belongs), and didn't try to insert their particular idea of a sky daddy in schools and science, we wouldn't have the need to keep shoving your bullshit back into where the sun doesn't shine.
Do you have anything new? The claims you made have already been addressed multiple times in this thread.
