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Benefits of atheism and theism
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Benefits of atheism and theism
January 13, 2015 at 7:59 am (This post was last modified: January 13, 2015 at 8:00 am by robvalue.)
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RE: Benefits of atheism and theism
January 13, 2015 at 8:42 am
I get to keep 100% of my earnings and not 90%

(Excluding uncle sam's cut Sad
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RE: Benefits of atheism and theism
January 13, 2015 at 9:05 am
Big Grin atheism is best world view.
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RE: Benefits of atheism and theism
January 13, 2015 at 9:13 am
I think you summed it up well but there is no 'Freedom to have orgies or eat babies' under the atheism tab.
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RE: Benefits of atheism and theism
January 13, 2015 at 9:15 am
(January 13, 2015 at 9:05 am)dyresand Wrote: Big Grin atheism is best world view.

Not in Saudi Arabia it isn't.

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RE: Benefits of atheism and theism
January 13, 2015 at 9:16 am
And since when is atheism a worldview?
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RE: Benefits of atheism and theism
January 13, 2015 at 9:40 am
(January 13, 2015 at 9:16 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: And since when is atheism a worldview?
Since it's a conception of the world that has no place for Father Zeus and his Olympian hall, or any other adolescent supreme being myths?
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RE: Benefits of atheism and theism
January 13, 2015 at 9:42 am
(January 13, 2015 at 9:40 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:
(January 13, 2015 at 9:16 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: And since when is atheism a worldview?
Since it's a conception of the world that has no place for Father Zeus and his Olympian hall, or any other adolescent supreme being myths?

But it's a single stance on a single issue. That's like saying that not believing in homeopathy is a worldview or disbelief in unicorns is a worldview. I'd stick it under "secular", which has a set of ideas and a method in which to address the world, but I consider atheism as the result of a worldview, not one in and of itself.
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RE: Benefits of atheism and theism
January 13, 2015 at 9:45 am
(January 13, 2015 at 9:42 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote:
(January 13, 2015 at 9:40 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Since it's a conception of the world that has no place for Father Zeus and his Olympian hall, or any other adolescent supreme being myths?

But it's a single stance on a single issue. That's like saying that not believing in homeopathy is a worldview or disbelief in unicorns is a worldview. I'd stick it under "secular", which has a set of ideas and a method in which to address the world, but I consider atheism as the result of a worldview, not one in and of itself.
That's valid.
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RE: Benefits of atheism and theism
January 13, 2015 at 9:57 am
Yeah... It's tricky. I wouldn't call it a worldview either, but I can almost see how it could be classed as one since 80% of the planet believe in fairy stories. But it doesn't actually tell you anything else about a person at all.
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