RE: Is it true that atheism has killed more people then organized religion?...
September 7, 2010 at 5:15 pm
(This post was last modified: September 7, 2010 at 5:16 pm by Existentialist.)
(September 7, 2010 at 4:48 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: 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.
It depends on how authentic you're being, or whether you're really just fibbing about what you think certain words mean just to make the point. Ultimately, we could both completely talk in code, but I suspect we would only choose to do that if one of us found the other's ideas so threatening to our existence that we became fearful of the other's point of view
Quote: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.
You're right I don't mean that. I mean a belief system. Atheism is a whole belief system.
And are you really saying Santa Claus doesn't exist?
