RE: Atheism a religion?
April 25, 2009 at 5:33 am
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2009 at 5:33 am by fr0d0.)
(April 24, 2009 at 8:08 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Religion is defined as a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe. (Bolded words are key). A single belief cannot be a religion, but a collection of them can. Thus atheism and theism are not religions, since they are single beliefs/disbeliefs, although they can both be aspects of religions.That's awesome.
(April 24, 2009 at 8:08 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Now atheists do have certain beliefs about the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe. For me, the cause is the Big Bang, the nature is that of non-intelligent complexity, and the purpose is non existent. However this is not a set of beliefs. Each of these beliefs is singular and I don't count them together. For a theistic religion, the three beliefs would be combined (i.e God caused the universe, he created the nature, and it exists for his purpose). The set of beliefs is linked by the "God".
I don't think that's correct. Religions concern themselves with non scientific matters around human spirituality. The beliefs are complimentary and not exclusive.
