Atheism is the punk rock of religion

[Reforged]

The question of God's existence has nothing to do with my faith. Just to clear that one up for you

Fact remains, there are Buddhists who lack belief in any deity.

So... you have a philosophical position that gives you reason not to believe in a deity. And at the same time you claim not to have a stance on religion??

Oh yeah... I reject religion too. But you don't see me getting butt hurt about the categorization. By your philosophical stance, you have a position on religion. You have considered meaning and purpose just like every other human, and so get to be fully included in the sweep of my OP.

"The question of God's existence has nothing to do with my faith. Just to clear that one up for you"
Yes it does. Your Gods name is Yahweh, not Allah. You put more faith into Yahweh than you do Allah despite both being equal in terms of plausibility.

"Fact remains, there are Buddhists who lack belief in any deity."
For lack of wanting to repeat the same carefully written paragraph that you obviously didn't want to read; Buddha.

"So... you have a philosophical position that gives you reason not to believe in a deity. And at the same time you claim not to have a stance on religion??"
Nope, just a complete lack of evidence for anything of that nature.


"Oh yeah... I reject religion too. But you don't see me getting butt hurt about the categorization. By your philosophical stance, you have a position on religion. You have considered meaning and purpose just like every other human, and so get to be fully included in the sweep of my OP."
You assume I have a philosophical stance and I have shared none. All I have is a position on reality and thats about it. Meaning and purpose are not the property of religion despite how much those who are part of it would like to think they are.

"Atheism = lack of belief in God."
Incase you missed it. Your admission thats the definition of Atheism. Thats it, thats the complete definition you give. An admission that was the entire focus of this debate and you gave it.
This would usually dictate we have nothing more to say to each other as the purpose of this debate has been significantly diminished by you contradicting your own original statement that Atheism is a religious position.
I think you'll find that any further discussion will only serve to clarify what you already admitted.