(October 2, 2014 at 12:26 am)Huggy74 Wrote: My point is, the atheist church is a religious organization:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion
Quote:A religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence.[note 1] Many religions have narratives, symbols, and sacred histories that are intended to explain the meaning of life and/or to explain the origin of life or the Universe. From their beliefs about the cosmos and human nature, people derive morality, ethics, religious laws or a preferred lifestyle. According to some estimates, there are roughly 4,200 religions in the world.
And doctrines don't have to include God in order to be a doctrine.
Quote:doc·trine
/ˈdäktrin/
noun
noun: doctrine; plural noun: doctrines
a belief or set of beliefs held and taught by a church, political party, or other group.
"the doctrine of predestination"
synonyms: creed, credo, dogma, belief, teaching, ideology;
What "organized collection of beliefs" would you be referring too? Atheists have one thing in common: we don't have a belief in god. How humans relate to the cosmos isn't part of that definition nor is where morals come from. There's no atheist ideology, dogma, world view, etc.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.