(February 11, 2010 at 10:11 pm)tackattack Wrote: but would they accept theists into their class is the question?
Why wouldn't they? Critical thinking needs scutiny and skepticism. People with differing opinions are paramount to a full understanding of the issues at hand.
To be honest, atheism as an entity can be seen as a religion. There are organizations, child camps, forums, support groups and merchandising. There are outspoken members of the community who progress the movement. I have trouble identifying with atheism for this very reason. Even though there is no internal dogma and principles within the atheist community, on the whole, are deeply vested in seeking viable explanations and scientific reasoning, on its face atheism does seem like a faith to outsiders. It gets tiring having to explain my world view every time I say I don't believe in God, and even more so when I say that there could possibly be a God, although it is improbable and all scientific explanations work perfectly well without that assumption.
Making a Sunday school type scenario for atheists is just perpetuating a social stigma and stereotype that atheism is a belief that God does not exist, rather than a rejection of the claim that he does exist.
On a side note: I'm glad I can post somewhere and not have it deleted. I tried Christianforums.com, and anything that even smells of dissent gets deleted. There are some real troubled people over there, and they're getting a grade A brainwashing at the hand of the 10,000 denomination that hold Jesus' name in high regard. I sincerely hope some of that consoles them or helps them with their personal choices, because I'd hate to think a supernatural force was in charge of my life, and willfully made it shitty.
I'm rambling. Fuck.
