(March 23, 2012 at 3:19 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote:(March 23, 2012 at 1:16 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote: They know the word "religion" has negative connotations to it now, so they go out of their way to claim christianity isnt a religion and atheism is...they will even say that everything they are opposed to is religious if it meant getting temporary big brother points with them.
I think that's why they also claim that it takes more faith to be an atheist than a Christian.
I've seen this "evolution is a religion" claim many times, and it is not new. Just read Kent Hovind's "PhD dissertation" and you'll see it stated there many, many times, along with calls for it to be removed from schools because they only care about separation of church and state when it comes to the "religion" of evolution. I really don't know how they expect to get biblical creationism taught in schools in place of evolution if they actually managed to get evolution removed on the grounds that it's a religion.
That's when the spin machine goes into action. They then readjust the claims to state that creationism is the predominant belief of the people and scientifically based so therefore has merit to be taught. They are just saying whatever they need to to try and get evolution out of the schools. Then they will twist things however they need to to get creationism into the school. Hence the ID movement which essentially claims that god and the creationists vision of the origins of life are science.
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"All thinking men are atheists." -Ernest Hemmingway
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire
"All thinking men are atheists." -Ernest Hemmingway
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire