(January 7, 2012 at 3:43 pm)amkerman Wrote: A group of individuals who think the same way about God.
This definition fails, because according to this, the only way to avoid a belief in god is to come up with one that no one else has before. By your defintion agnosticism and deism are also religions, yet if I worshipped chocolate chips as god incarnate on a weekly basis in front of a shrine, that would not be one. I agree with the sentiment that you are creating your own defintion of religion and trying to shoehorn whatever you want into it.
amkerman Wrote:A Catholic is not Catholocism; and atheist is not atheism. You can be one without being a member of that religion in my opinion, for you to be part of the "religion" you must blindly accept the beliefs of the religion.
If this were true then anyone who studies religion and comes to their own conclusion that Catholicism is true is not part of a religion. Being religious isn't dependent on how you came to a conclusion, only what conclusion you came to.
Lord Summerisle Wrote:Its the twisting of facts that I take issue with, and should be, in theory, very unatheist like.
So can I assume that you condemn theists who also twist facts to suit their beliefs? As for atheists claiming religion is the source of evil, I have never heard that. I have heard atheists claim religion is one source of evil, but never the source of evil. Do you have evidence for this, or are you twisting facts yourself?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
