(September 8, 2021 at 3:22 pm)Angrboda Wrote:(September 8, 2021 at 2:57 pm)Ahriman Wrote: In an atheist's mind, rejecting religion and rejecting the idea of God, are the same thing.
*bzzzt* Wrong answer. You don't have the first clue what atheists actually think. Most atheists in my experience do the reverse, rejecting God leading them to rejecting religion. Many nones who have rejected religion have not rejected God as well, showing that your argument is complete crap. Rejecting religion doesn't in the main lead to rejecting God, though it may. Rejecting God is almost certainly going to lead to rejecting religion.
I rejected the concept of God, and am part of a religion. So, the two are not always correlated.
Being an atheist means not believing in any gods, and nothing more. Religion is a different thing - it is about community and shared values. If those "values" involve gods, then stopping believing in God will likely mean leaving the religion (but not always). I stopped believing in gods, and it took a couple of years before I left my old religion. In my new religion, gods don't have to be involved.
