RE: Is it true that atheism has killed more people then organized religion?...
September 7, 2010 at 4:48 pm
(This post was last modified: September 7, 2010 at 4:51 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(September 7, 2010 at 3:13 pm)Existentialist Wrote: Cheese is a bad example. Socialism would be a better analogy.
The definition of cheese I gave as being "A slide in a children's playground" is no more incorrect than any definition of atheism whatsoever that is said to mean that atheism is an ideology. How does disbelief in God or positive belief that there is no God in itself equate to an ideology?
(September 7, 2010 at 3:13 pm)Existentialist Wrote: Well in my book it is. But then, I think the definitions of words can be arrived at subjectively and the purpose of discussion is to enable people to compare their subjective definitions. I'm well aware that others think arguments are settled objectively by dictionaries or hard logic, and that a dissenter is just wrong.
Well in my book "Book" means "A forest fire", (So, I mean that in my forest fire "forest fire" means " a forest fire", which may not make sense to you but that's because all these other words I'm using I'm also meaning to mean different things to what you would probably expect them to mean (!)) so, as you can see, if we start using words to mean whatever we want rather than what they generally properly mean in our language then we will never understand each other.
Calling "Atheism" an ideology is exactly like calling disbelief in Santa Claus or denying Santa Claus' existence altogether an ideology. Maybe by ideology you don't mean ideology, maybe by ideology you mean "A mere single disbelief/belief in the non-existence of and not in fact a belief system", but I doubt it.
