RE: Atheism and morality
July 10, 2013 at 12:59 pm
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2013 at 1:04 pm by fr0d0.)
(July 10, 2013 at 11:44 am)genkaus Wrote: I'm saying that even if you re-classify all philosophies as religions, atheism would still be around.
Well to you and I, atheism and theism do not equal religion. Philosophers huh!
(July 10, 2013 at 7:55 am)Esquilax Wrote: Kind of a useless thing to talk about though, isn't it? I mean, fine, if you want to reclassify all these things so they're in the same basket, whatever. But where does it get us? At best all that can be said is now we've broadened the scope of one word to be an umbrella over many individual concepts. The thing is, those individual concepts still mean things on their own, so what has actually been accomplished?
Well supposedly this is the forefront of new atheist thinking to address the overwhelming mass of new theistic thinking.