(March 14, 2013 at 4:13 pm)futilethewinds Wrote: Wrong. The anthropological definition of religion applies to atheism. In anthropology, your system of organizing the universe is your religion, and it is viewed that atheism is one such system.Then the anthropological definition doesn't apply to atheism as atheism is not a system of organising one's uinderstanding of the universe, it's a way of saying that you don't use theism as your system. It doesn't tell you what system is being used instead.
Quote:I'm not saying I agree with that, though. I think materialism/physicalism/naturalism would more be systems which people organize the world with, and atheism does not entail those philosophies.Indeed. Atheism entails no philosophy whatsoever; only the absence of one particular philosophy from one's value-systems.
Sum ergo sum
