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To: Heartlander
No, I'm sorry, atheism isn't "another kind of religion." Now, there are some atheists who develop a system that looks rather like religion, but atheism itself is simply atheism.

As for this particular bit of opinion, attempting to explain origins is not evidence of religion, neither is worrying about possible outcomes. It's silly to try and re-cast everything as "just another version of what I believe, simply not the correct one." It's a childish game.

5 posted on 10/29/2014 5:45:36 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: A_perfect_lady

Sorry. It takes just as much (or more) faith to believe in no god as it does to believe in Him.
Atheism is a religion - just like Communism was.


6 posted on 10/29/2014 5:50:38 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: A_perfect_lady

Get back to me when you figure out what happened before time began - and what that concept even means. Or how about this, what is one centimeter beyond the end of all space? And what does that even mean?

And what is the difference between nothing, and everything.

Humans are not even smart enough to ask the most important questions, let alone give the answers, as to how all of this exists without a God outside our constraints of time and space.

To believe otherwise is a religion, whether it’s organized or not.


7 posted on 10/29/2014 5:54:00 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: A_perfect_lady
No, I'm sorry, atheism isn't "another kind of religion."

Atheism makes a positive statement concerning the metaphysical. That makes it a religion. Agnosticism, however, is not a religion.

19 posted on 10/29/2014 6:50:20 AM PDT by cizinec ( For the Republic!)
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