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Can one be Atheist and Superstitious?
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 (August 23, 2014 at 12:29 am)Polaris Wrote: One can be atheist and religious. Lets see.. Atheist - A person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods Religious - Relating to or believing in a religion Religion - The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/ Yeah... That totally checks out.. ![[Image: hhn.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.reactiongifs.com%2Fr%2Fhhn.gif)
Is that Trevor IRL.
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Yes you can. Being an atheist just means you don't believe in gods. If it's coherent or not, that's another question, but it could happen.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
Atheism is a specialised subset of scepticism, keyed to one topic only - the existence of gods. Everything else is up for grabs as far as atheism goes; and no other determination can be drawn from identifying with such. To that end, you will find atheists who believe in ghosts, UFOs, the antivax movement, that NASA and Kubrick staged the Moon landings, etc etc etc...
As long as the god hypothesis isn't the issue, atheism isn't a factor.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 (August 23, 2014 at 2:42 am)Zidneya Wrote:(August 23, 2014 at 12:29 am)Polaris Wrote: One can be atheist and religious.What?!!! Perhaps I'm being optimistic, but hopefully Polaris is basing it on the fact that there are atheists who are members of a religion. A goodly number of Unitarian Universalists and 'bare-bones' Buddhists are atheists. Raellianism is a whacky religion, but it's an atheistic whacky religion.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
Initially I would think being religious is the one thing an atheist can't be, but I guess it really depends on what you consider religious.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason... http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/ Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50 A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh. http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html RE: Can one be Atheist and Superstitious?
August 23, 2014 at 11:30 am
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2014 at 11:30 am by Mister Agenda.)
(August 23, 2014 at 4:54 am)Insanity Wrote:(August 23, 2014 at 12:29 am)Polaris Wrote: One can be atheist and religious. And since that's the only definition for religion out there, bonus points! Oh, wait: "A religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence." --Wikipedia
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
Of course you can be atheist and religious. What about Buddhism, Taoism, and LaVeyan (atheistic) Satanism?
(August 23, 2014 at 11:41 am)Losty Wrote: Of course you can be atheist and religious. What about Buddhism, Taoism, and LaVeyan (atheistic) Satanism? People always tell me they aren't really religions.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason... http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/ Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50 A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh. http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html (August 23, 2014 at 11:42 am)Chad32 Wrote:(August 23, 2014 at 11:41 am)Losty Wrote: Of course you can be atheist and religious. What about Buddhism, Taoism, and LaVeyan (atheistic) Satanism? Well whether or not they're religions is probably subjective, but they seem pretty religious to me and certainly superstitious. Also, you can be religious about something that isn't a religion. You can have a religious devotion to something that isn't a god. |
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