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Post by Elizabeth on Jul 4, 2019 18:14:10 GMT
One group spreads God or something else and one group spreads no God or something. It's like a "+" and a "-". Last I checked both were on a battery. So both are part of something together and both are needed for the process or for religious belief. Because both believe in something and has a purpose or a function. Even in an atom. You need a positive charged proton and a negative charged electron to make the atom whole. Just like in religion you need a positive charged belief and a negative charges belief for it too. Every part spreads something that's part of the whole.
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Post by lovelivesinme on Aug 23, 2020 15:21:48 GMT
Not the faintest idea about what you actually said. Sorry.
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Post by Elizabeth on Aug 24, 2020 2:10:20 GMT
Cute idea that atheism is a religion. I do not propogate it. I do not seek it nor campaign for it....or seek out others who espouse it. I do not judge others by it. I do not believe it is my salvation or the salvation of humankind. At it's mildest it is a preference. At it's fiercest it is a repudiation of the certainty of others. Religion....? Well isn't a religion a belief of some kind? Atheists have their own beliefs too. Everyone has a belief of this world and of what happens after death. So that's the belief or religion that they live by. I'm guessing you are Christian? Your username reminds me of a Christian song so that was my guess.
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Post by GGHeart on Aug 24, 2020 5:14:28 GMT
No but some atheists turn it into some kind of anti-God religion/ideology.
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Post by jamesskywalker on Aug 24, 2020 5:42:44 GMT
Even if you say, “I don’t know what to believe.” you are expressing the unknown in English, therefore you believe in British kings.
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Post by anna1867 on Sept 7, 2020 15:48:48 GMT
I think to answer this question we should begin by defining “religion”. According to Oxford Language’s religion is “the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. A particular system of faith and worship.” So strictly based of syntactical words and language, atheism is not a religion. Atheists do not hold belief in, worship, or have faith in a superior being (god).
As she says, atheists hold a negative belief that there is no greater being. One could argue that atheists believe in science as the explanation for the creation of the universe and everything on Earth. They put their faith into scientific theory and its correctness. However, believing in something or anything for that matter, does not make it a “religion”. One could believe that there are unicorns living in the Amazon rainforest. They too are putting their faith into unicorns living there and they truly believe with conviction it is true, but it is missing the crucial factor of a supreme being. On the other hand, if they believed the unicorns contained magical powers and they begin to offer sacrifices and pray to these unicorns. It could then perhaps be a religion. Firstly, it satisfies the supreme being claim, humans do not have magical powers and thus anything containing them would be supreme to us, and it also satisfies the worship and faith aspects. Some might say that is a preposterous example, no one would count that as a religion, but let’s not forget Pastafarianism, Raelism, or the Church of Euthanasia. So does belief in science make atheism a religion? I would say no on the terms that one does not “believe” in science the same way one “believes” in a god(s). There are two views, either science is correct and it explains the world around us, or it is incorrect and does not explain the world around us. While science does require faith, it can also decrease the need for faith through observation, experiment, defendable or falsifiable hypotheses, and the scientific method in general, religion has no equal method (Paul Bloom, “Scientific Faith Is Different From Religious Faith”). Science puts down a hypothesis and “then as physician Richard Feynman once wrote that the essence of science was ‘bending over backwards to prove ourselves wrong’”( Paul Bloom). In conclusion on this specificity, atheism is not a religion because they do not believe in a superior being.
A third definition for religion is, “A pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance.” Possibly this is where atheism begins to toe the line of religion. Let us take Christianity as an example quickly. Christianity has the 10 Commandments, the greatest commandment of them all, both of which add up to a moral code that believers live by. Christians are supposed to live by these commandments daily, and reflect upon them before speaking, taking action, and supporting political and social standards. Does atheism contain any dogma similar? Atheists do not have a moral code they follow every day. They do not consult their nonbelief in a god(s) before speaking, taking action, etc. Perhaps some atheists make the pursuit of proving there is no god(s) the most important goal in life, but others do not. In this way, atheism is more philosophic than religious. In conclusion, atheism is not a religion for most atheists. It is important to address the outliers for which it could apply as a religion. Christianity does not need an opposing belief to exist in order to exist because it is based on doctrine.
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