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Not religious doesn't necessarily mean atheist

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Not religious doesn't necessarily mean atheist
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RE: Not religious doesn't necessarily mean atheist
November 3, 2017 at 8:15 am
(November 2, 2017 at 5:45 pm)Succubus Wrote:
(November 1, 2017 at 3:49 pm)alpha male Wrote: Read the bolded folks. Yes, atheists can believe in astrology, but we don't get a lot like that here, do we?

Correct. But then we don't tend see many atheist tarot readers either, or atheist alchemists, or... What's the point you're trying to make again, I must have missed it.

I believe his point is that being an atheist doesn't necessarily mean that you're somehow immune to pseudoscience-woo-delusional-bullshit.  And he's right.  An atheist can have all sorts of un-skeptical, unscientific delusions... but I've never heard anyone genuinely support the idea that atheists are perfect logical thinkers in the first place.  So he's kind of arguing against a non-argument.
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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 FatAndFaithless - November 3, 2017 at 8:15 am
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 Cod - November 7, 2017 at 6:51 am

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