(February 17, 2010 at 1:36 pm)chatpilot Wrote: To state that atheism is a religion is ridiculous in every way I can think possible. As Adrian stated to be an atheist by definition is to be without a belief in god or gods. Any other definition is simply clouding the issue. I have no clue where you got the idea that somehow Dawkins, Darwin, Freud, and Jung equate the Christian concept of prophets. All of those men you have mentioned are men of science, philosophy,etc. They don't get their ideas from some deity or spiritual being they get thier ideas from observation and confirmation of those findings through experimentation.
Atheists do not worship anyone on earth or in heaven and we all hold our own personal beliefs and convictions that are completely irrelevant to those of our other fellow non-believers. It is my humble opinion that atheism in no way qualifies as a religion. The reasons are obvious and numerous and actually not even worth the trouble of going over them one at a time over and over again.
Although I agree 100%, maybe we could find a wrinkle that gets us tax free status?
Why do religions not pay tax anyway?
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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