Atheism is the punk rock of religion

[fr0d0]

Ah but you didn't, and thus falls your pack of cards.
If you look at the post of mine you quoted from, you'll see that I qualified my statement as the popular position here, and that atheists exist who argue for a wider definition.
I'm very happy to explain the populist position to you. But for you to misquote me and then try and put the concocted statement in my mouth is a bit rich.
Thank you for the retraction. Atheism, according to Raphael, isn't only about the lack of belief in God. All those other things are too. I shall remember to bring that up whenever it gets trotted out. That's usually about one a day at least, so this should be fun.

Its not a retraction, I made no statement. I used your quote, I did not misquote. If you disagree provide the whole quote to prove me wrong. Otherwise, you've got nothing.

Lets deal with this one fail at a time:

If you seriously want to use this kind of reasoning then fine. I'm game.
By that same definition Christians are atheists because they don't believe in Allah and Muslims are atheists because they don't believe in Yahweh. The same reasoning can be applied to every single religion in the world.
Well I guess we'd better call everyone an atheist now.
Anyone else get the feeling this is going to get confusing?

Get with the plan Raphael. Atheism = lack of belief in God. That's it. It's not confusing.

<hide>There are atheists that disagree with this, but we chase them off with big sticks whenever they show their faces on AF. Hence the knee jerk reaction above to any suggestion that atheists might touch philosophy with a barge pole. You'd have to be thick skinned to carry off that as an atheist around here. Which I would respect.</hide>

So it looks like I've got something. I wrote more about the single definition of atheism than you keep claiming that I did. You were wrong.

Care to retract?