(July 6, 2012 at 2:05 pm)Taqiyya Mockingbird Wrote: That is fucking stupid. Atheism is not a belief system. You are really hung up on this idiotic labeling thing with your semantic shell game, aren't you?
What a fucking dolt.
I don't think atheism is a belief system. To my thinking, atheism covers an entire class of belief systems--specifically, those belief systems which do not implement theism. Since atheism is the lack of belief in theism, this definition makes sense.
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”