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September 18th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
Athiesm FTW
September 22nd, 2007 at 7:18 am
Atheist is so en vogue… at the risk of being so denim, I register my vote as “this cartoon is funny and thought-provoking, but in the end no matter how much incestuous adoration it garners, it will grant its artist no ecumenical satisfaction”
October 6th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Why is it so hard to define what a religion is these days? Religion: “An organization and/or set of ideas pertaining to a given doctrine that argues for a particular supernatural view of the world and concerns itself with inculcating followers with this doctrine.”
I’ll admit I just came up with that, but I think it covers everything. I didn’t include the aspect of “gaining more followers” in my definition because I wanted it to be as general as possible. The practice of proselytizing by a given “religion” is something determined by the doctrine of said religion, not necessarily simply by virtue of being a religion.
If atheism can be considered a religion simply by virtue of the fact that there are some atheists who try to convince others of their atheism, then we may as well be able to call political parties religions.
October 17th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
Sorry to break it to you but Atheism is NOT a religion. To be called a religion you must have a belief in a higher power. Atheism has NO such belief. So to call Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.
October 17th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
I like your “like calling bald a hair color” analogy.
October 26th, 2007 at 4:16 am
Sorry to break it to you but Atheism is NOT a religion. To be called a religion you must have a belief in a higher power.
Nooo, to be called a religion you must have a belief ABOUT a higher power. By your definition Buddhism is not a religion.
October 26th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Catherine, what exactly is the difference between a belief IN a higher power and a belief ABOUT a higher power? I don’t see why you’re nit-picking it. Sounds like basically the same thing to me. Why would one bother to have a belief ABOUT a higher power that they didn’t also believe IN?
November 1st, 2007 at 6:07 am
Matt is unfamiliar with the Buddhist concept of the non self existence of anything much less a higher power. So there you have it a belief about something without believing in it. Not nit picking at all.
Atheists have a belief about higher powers also… that they don’t exist.
November 1st, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Buddhism is atheistic.
Then again, it may not technically qualify as a religion. Religion is, at its heart, a Western concept. Buddhism is called a religion largely because Westerners had no idea what to think about it.
November 1st, 2007 at 7:16 pm
The problem with buddhism is there are a LOT of different sects, some with highly varying sets of beliefs/teachings. Just go here to see what I’m talking about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitabha
Amitabha…celestial buddha. I’m not trying to argue that ALL buddhism has deities or even semi-deities, but there are sects out there with explicit supernatural elements.
November 2nd, 2007 at 1:50 am
Buddhism is interesting because it has a sort of opposite flow than Christianity. Christianity started (to use Alfred Whitehead’s terminology) very tribal and more superstitious, then eventually the Neoplatonists pinned some philosophy on it. Buddhism started with a metaphysics, and as it expanded it became more tribal and esoteric.
Regardless, atheists only necessarily agree on one point, whereas religion implies a fairly uniform world view. In this sense, atheism isn’t a religion, unless you join an atheist church…
November 11th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
I would like to see an atheist church.
“And Lo, Richard Dawkins did say…”
November 12th, 2007 at 9:32 am
woo 10 points for me and paganism
November 29th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Atheists have a belief about higher powers also… that they don’t exist.
I thought atheism was the lack of a belief in a higher power. If I have no idea what to believe I would be an atheist, but would not have a belief about higher powers.
November 29th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
James, that’s called “agnosticism”
Where you go “Dude, like, I don’t know if there’s a god or not. There’s, like, not enough proof either way, man”
November 30th, 2007 at 9:30 am
I thought agnostics were just atheists who don’t want to admit to it.
http://atheism.about.com/od/aboutagnosticism/a/atheism.htm
Only two sides of the coin, theism, the belief in a god, atheism, the lack of belief in a god.
December 19th, 2007 at 12:41 am
James…only Theists believe there are only two sides to the coin, everyoner else knows there is that awkward, edgy bit between.
December 19th, 2007 at 2:22 am
But bob, does not that edge bit give way to either side.
In such a world that the coin could stand comfortably on end, perhaps it wouldn’t matter to which side it fell.
Alas, it cannot, and it does.
December 19th, 2007 at 9:41 am
ApocryphalBob,
How can you believe and not believe at the exact same time?
December 19th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
You can believe that you don’t know, James.
December 19th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
If you don’t know, then you don’t believe in a god and you are by definition an atheist.
April 30th, 2008 at 9:37 am
hey there um…yeah atheism isn’t a religion but i would like to see an atheist church as well…”and thus chuck norris said…” lol
April 30th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Angel that doesn’t work ’cause Chuck Norris is a very devout Christian.