RE: Atheism - less war?
April 22, 2013 at 12:20 pm
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2013 at 12:21 pm by Dawud.)
I think it is the offshoot of Hindustani thought in a very real and palpable sense.
But I think it is fair to class it as an atheist religion as it doesn't mean that either all atheists subscribe to it or that it is derived from atheism.
What I mean to say is that, contrary to some naive interpretations of the meaning of the word, one can be an atheist and be considered as being an adherent of a religion such as Buddhism or Jainism. Hence why experts who know about religion (in peer reviewed journals etc...) understand the possibility (as accepted by Rhythm) of someone being religious and atheism.
The nativity comes when one assumes that atheism is a worldview like Christianity etc that defines a person and restricts them to not adhering to a religion....
I do not think atheism is so restrictive - but I understand that post-Christian atheism can take on the form of Christian thought (E.g. Only Christian thought is rational thought/only atheist thought is rational thought). I don't think that you all subscribe to this way of thinking but I am sure you are familiar with it and the rejection of merging atheism with religion is quite apparently similar to rejecting the idea of mixing Christian thought with 'pagan' thought....
No?
*religious and atheist
But I think it is fair to class it as an atheist religion as it doesn't mean that either all atheists subscribe to it or that it is derived from atheism.
What I mean to say is that, contrary to some naive interpretations of the meaning of the word, one can be an atheist and be considered as being an adherent of a religion such as Buddhism or Jainism. Hence why experts who know about religion (in peer reviewed journals etc...) understand the possibility (as accepted by Rhythm) of someone being religious and atheism.
The nativity comes when one assumes that atheism is a worldview like Christianity etc that defines a person and restricts them to not adhering to a religion....
I do not think atheism is so restrictive - but I understand that post-Christian atheism can take on the form of Christian thought (E.g. Only Christian thought is rational thought/only atheist thought is rational thought). I don't think that you all subscribe to this way of thinking but I am sure you are familiar with it and the rejection of merging atheism with religion is quite apparently similar to rejecting the idea of mixing Christian thought with 'pagan' thought....
No?
*religious and atheist
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