RE: North Korea - smear on atheism?
April 20, 2013 at 8:30 am
(This post was last modified: April 20, 2013 at 8:34 am by Dawud.)
So - it's a smear on the name atheism for the following reason:
They say the state has an atheist ideology but its not really atheist. (They say they are atheists but they are not so are misrepresenting atheism in their lack of understanding)?
@Napolean don't worry - I don't think that atheism is a philosophy or that it carries set beliefs about rationality etc. but I do think some atheists might treat it that way.
PS Esquilax - I wouldn't be so silly as to imply one atheist doing bad means that atheism is bad.
Just as I would understand that religions mean a whole lot of different things to people and to say that all members of a religion are bad because a person or country claiming to be of that religion do bad things.
I think too that conversations following this line of thought are bankrupt but Im sure they will continue
I think that atheism is just two things mostly:
1 not believing in God
2. Or believing there is no such thing as God
They say the state has an atheist ideology but its not really atheist. (They say they are atheists but they are not so are misrepresenting atheism in their lack of understanding)?
@Napolean don't worry - I don't think that atheism is a philosophy or that it carries set beliefs about rationality etc. but I do think some atheists might treat it that way.
PS Esquilax - I wouldn't be so silly as to imply one atheist doing bad means that atheism is bad.
Just as I would understand that religions mean a whole lot of different things to people and to say that all members of a religion are bad because a person or country claiming to be of that religion do bad things.
I think too that conversations following this line of thought are bankrupt but Im sure they will continue
I think that atheism is just two things mostly:
1 not believing in God
2. Or believing there is no such thing as God
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