Oooh, I just got a really good visual idea of how I would see this whole business:
Imagine a circle. Now cut it like a pizza into e.g. 8 pieces. Now imagine an inner circle, a smaller pizza inside the bigger one per se. Now each slice represents a religion. What the outer circle represents are the "fundamental" bits of philosophy integral to each religion i.e. Jesus' divinity. The inner circle represents what could easily be the secular bits of philosophy from each religion.
Now, my gut feeling is that your outlook on life would be rather incomplete if you merely grabbed a small pizza slice from the inner circle (e.g. Christian Atheism). It would instead be better to have the *whole* of the inner pizza i.e. your outlook on life shares many things that are found throughout lots of religions, but none of these things are a fundamental thing about said religion.
/atheism
Imagine a circle. Now cut it like a pizza into e.g. 8 pieces. Now imagine an inner circle, a smaller pizza inside the bigger one per se. Now each slice represents a religion. What the outer circle represents are the "fundamental" bits of philosophy integral to each religion i.e. Jesus' divinity. The inner circle represents what could easily be the secular bits of philosophy from each religion.
Now, my gut feeling is that your outlook on life would be rather incomplete if you merely grabbed a small pizza slice from the inner circle (e.g. Christian Atheism). It would instead be better to have the *whole* of the inner pizza i.e. your outlook on life shares many things that are found throughout lots of religions, but none of these things are a fundamental thing about said religion.
/atheism
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
