Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: July 10, 2025, 12:44 am

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Some religions are secular- Atheists should oppose these too
#32
RE: Some religions are secular- Atheists should oppose these too
(September 18, 2012 at 5:41 am)Stimbo Wrote: It's really quite simple; perhaps that's why some people don't get it. Atheism is a specialised subset of scepticism, one dealing exclusively with theism

Even that isn't entirely accurate; people can blindly believe there is no God simply because that's how they were raised. Skepticism is about questioning everything and if you just blindly accept that God is bullshit without questioning it, you aren't really skeptic. I've always said, I'd rather have a discussion with an intelligent theist who has put intelligent thought into their beliefs than an atheist who is just blindly following what his parents told him to believe and doesn't know why he's an atheist.
I live on facebook. Come see me there. http://www.facebook.com/tara.rizzatto

"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
Reply



Messages In This Thread
RE: Some religions are secular- Atheists should oppose these too - by TaraJo - September 18, 2012 at 8:18 am

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Are Atheists Afraid to Join Atheists? Asmodeus 10 1844 October 26, 2024 at 9:09 am
Last Post: Asmodeus
  What does Sam Harris mean by saying that religions are failed sciences? FlatAssembler 21 3776 June 12, 2024 at 10:54 pm
Last Post: arewethereyet
  Sexual Abuse in Social Context: Clergy and other (Secular) Professionals. Nishant Xavier 61 7670 July 16, 2023 at 1:54 pm
Last Post: Rev. Rye
  Faux News: Atheism is a religion, too TaraJo 53 28654 October 9, 2018 at 10:13 pm
Last Post: Alan V
  Most humans aren't too logical when it comes to world views and how to go about it. Mystic 28 5485 October 9, 2018 at 8:59 am
Last Post: Alan V
  Me too Silver 6 1804 October 7, 2018 at 10:08 pm
Last Post: outtathereligioncloset
  How would Abrahamic religions end? mota 18 9763 August 2, 2018 at 6:56 am
Last Post: Crossless2.0
  Are some theists afraid of atheists? Der/die AtheistIn 146 59399 June 21, 2018 at 6:29 pm
Last Post: The Valkyrie
  These People Truly Have No Limits athstmike 18 4227 June 13, 2018 at 3:22 am
Last Post: downbeatplumb
  Why Atheism/Secular Humanism... Part II TheReal 53 28588 April 23, 2018 at 4:48 pm
Last Post: Mystic



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)