RE: Is no Religion a Religion.
May 27, 2014 at 11:36 pm
(This post was last modified: May 27, 2014 at 11:54 pm by rexbeccarox.)
(May 27, 2014 at 11:14 pm)Stimbo Wrote:(May 27, 2014 at 10:58 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Copypasta is worthless without links. Could you please post them?
His quoted material appears to have orignated here, a HuffPo blog: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-lose...67217.html
Artur, in future you are required to provide links when quoting articles. Failure to do so will result in Staff intervention. Got that?
Thanks Stimbo
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I just read the article and I have a few thoughts:
1. It's an opinion post with a few facts littered in.
2. It's rife with fallacies, especially ad hominems and strawmen.
3. He capitalizes the word "atheist". It is not a proper noun, and capitalizing it is essentially building another strawman by trying to equate atheism to religious faith.
4. "While Atheism as a movement doesn't have the formal structure, celebrations, or creedal dogmas of organized religions, we might at least identify Atheism as it exists today as an increasingly vibrant faith tradition. Still, when speaking of Atheists, why use the f-word (for "faith," silly) rather than speak of a worldview or personal philosophy? Three reasons suggest themselves."
He just defined religion and negated the point he was trying to make. Derp.
There's more, but it's such an idiotic article, I don't want to waste my brain on it.