(March 11, 2013 at 9:15 am)Gabriel Syme Wrote: As per title, why are atheists so utterly consumed / obsessed by religion?
At the time of writing, the number of posts on this site are:
atheism: 1559
religiion: 3186
philosophy: 403
Religion is the clear winner, beating even the other two combined. Seems quite odd to me.
If I was an atheist, religion would be the last thing I would talk about.
So why is religion so popular here? Is it because Atheism is fundamentally empty, and correspondingly has no topics to discuss within itself?
(I suppose I could understand it better, if the discussion about religion was at least accurate and informed, but in my experience thus far it is anything but accurate and informed)
Dont say - "oh its because religion has such power over my life", because unless you like in Saudi Arabia or Iran, thats an absurd thing to say.
Look forward to hearing your point of view.
Atheists talking about atheism leads to a dull conversation.
eg:
Quote:- hey, I'm an atheist.
- Me too.
- cool, me three.
- Hey, why are you guys atheists?
- Simply don't believe.
- ^^ this!
- What they said.
We could talk about cars, or gambling, or porn, but that's what some other areas of the forum are for.... and, quite frankly, there are other forums around the interwebz where those topics are far better represented, so why would we talk about them over here?
In here, I'm an atheist and I discuss (un)belief related topics.
If I want to talk about something related to my Seat Ibiza, I go to the Ibiza club forum.
If I want to know about male grooming, I go to something like http://forums.menshealth.com/eve.... etc... etc... etc...
