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Not religious doesn't necessarily mean atheist
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RE: Not religious doesn't necessarily mean atheist
(November 2, 2017 at 12:37 pm)alpha male Wrote:
(November 2, 2017 at 1:40 am)Hammy Wrote: EDIT: Wait, I got this backwards. Religious doesn't necessarily mean theist. Non-religious absolutely does mean atheistic because non-religious means not believing in anything supernatural including gods. What the fuck are you talking about OP?

See the bolded. You consider astrology to fall within that category, right?

I'd agree with Hammy that non-religious generally means atheist (though I'm sure there are some exceptions like a Christian who considers their relationship with God to be entirely personal and not in line with any religion), but I think Hammy's overstepping a bit when they say "Non-religious means not believing in anything supernatural," because that's just not true.  You can be a non-religious atheist and still believe that ghosts exist, for example, or be non-religious and still buy into shit like healing crystals with magic powers.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Not religious doesn't necessarily mean atheist - by John V - November 1, 2017 at 1:02 pm
RE: Not religious doesn't necessarily mean atheist - by GUBU - November 1, 2017 at 3:04 pm
RE: Not religious doesn't necessarily mean atheist - by GUBU - November 1, 2017 at 4:16 pm
RE: Not religious doesn't necessarily mean atheist - by FatAndFaithless - November 2, 2017 at 12:49 pm
RE: Not religious doesn't necessarily mean atheist - by Cod - November 7, 2017 at 6:51 am

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