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Stating that atheism is a religion is twisted thinking. Some people just don’t believe in any religion, others - agnostics - just haven’t found a particular religion to believe in. Who are you to say what any other person on this planet actually thinks? It sounds like you are playing God!

You are equivocating between different meanings of religion. And I am not "playing God". You really are being silly. Calm down and try to be rational for a minute.

Think this through, and try to take words in the context of the person writing them...it will make misinterpretation easier to avoid.

Now the word religion can mean in some contexts a religious service. In some contexts it could mean a set of ethical standards, often in such cases divinely inspired. In some contexts it could mean what a person believes in terms of god or Gods or spirits or the after life and such. And still in some contexts it may mean the attitude one ought have toward gods or Gods or what not. Often it means a mix of some of these things.

Atheism can mean one of two things or a mix of both. One thing is the religious doctrine that there is no such thing as gods or any God. The other thing it may mean is the religious disposition of being anti-gods or anti-God (Atheism literally means anti-god).

Now when I point out that Athiesm is a silly religion whose apologists are so want for evidence they must make attack the validity of human thought itself in order to discredit their opponents arguments...while offering little else for themselves than an un-examined presumption that their thinking is immune to any such flaws...than I am speaking in terms of Atheism as both a set of religious doctrines about gods (that none exist) and attitude towards gods (that they are against gods). Certainly I am not talking about religion in the sense of some Sunday morning service nor Tuesday night ritual or whatever.

Now some people indeed are less religious than others in the sense that they have less developed ideas about theology, are undecided in regard to attitude, or do not like to attend religious services. However, although an Atheist might be less religious in the context of going to a service, but in the context of my argument, they are religious. Now while agnostics are not necessarily religious in such a context, I do not claim Agnosticism is a religion in regard to belief.

Hope this clears up your thinking...but then that would take some honest effort on your part. And would require you to be a skeptic in areas where you seem more comfortable simply being gullible...and being fair minded in areas where you have simply shut your mind off like a light switch.

28 posted on 08/09/2011 11:19:02 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: AndyTheBear
Who are you to say what any other person on this planet actually thinks?

Uhm...are you actually someone who goes through life with absolutely no idea what anybody else thinks about anything?

29 posted on 08/10/2011 12:15:33 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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