Is atheism a religion?

Exactly, so when one atheist speaks for all atheists, they are being idiots, right?

 

To continue, you have not been placed in prison, tortured, and made to confess a faith in God?

There are a lot of ministers who have been tortured to get them to recant their faith, this is just one of them:

http://torturedforchrist.com/

I've read his book.

 

Your goal posts are on an icy slope with a strong wind...all over the place.....

Now it's your turn to explain how atheists have made your life such a struggle?

 

The logic is impeccable, I am just taking your own words to their logical conclusion.

You know, going to church, brushing your teeth, and eating vegetables is what parents DO. It is their responsibility to make sure you eat right and learn well.

 

Time to bring this in for a landing. No person, government, or entity has "shoved religion down your throat". Your parents raised you in the manner they saw fit, which is their prerogative. Now you rant about God being named on currency and public monuments and even hang out on a forum where you KNOW people are going to be talking about religion, for one reason and one reason only. Because it's not enough to live your own life and allow others to live theirs. You want everyone to believe as you do.

 

Time to bring this in for a landing. No person, government, or entity has "shoved atheism down your throat". Your parents raised you in the manner they saw fit, which is their prerogative. Now you want your god being named on currency and public monuments and even hang out in a thread where you KNOW people are going to be talking about atheism, for one reason and one reason only. Because it's not enough to live your own life and allow others to live theirs. You want everyone to believe as you do.

 

Maybe Atheism isn't a religion, but the secularism yes.

 

What about agnostics, who simply say "I don't know whether a god exists or not." Is not knowing a religion too?

 

Turning a lack of belief into a belief of a negative is ridiculous. By using your same logic individuals would have millions of "beliefs" because they didn't believe in fairies, bigfoot, werewolves or that the moon was made out of cheese. You would also have to include since christians only believe in their one god, that their lack of belief in the other 1000 gods are beliefs.

 

Maybe they can be organized into something but I've never heard of them holding a service of any kind or praying into the great nothingness.

 

Atheism is simply a term the religious use to label anyone who does not accept religion. It was created to define a certain group of people so that they could be persecuted and punished. Is there a word for people who do not believe in fairies? Not really. An atheist simply agrees with most religious people but extend their critical view of Gods and superstition to every single God or superstition. The only difference is one more God.

 

-Your gourd needs reworking.

 

Wouldn't hurt, but your insults and lack of logic certainly need an upgrade. Since you obviously don't want to discuss it, I'll bid you adieu.

 

Your's was a stupid remark, what could ANYONE discuss about it?

and it doesn't matter which side of the fence a person is on. there is nothing to discuss It's just a dumb remark

 

You? Two posts later.

 

Are atheists now going to start playing the victim card?

 

Many on this thread certainly are doing so.

 

That makes no sense Most athiests DON'T agree with most religious people, that is largely WHY they are athiest. (however, there ARE exceptions.)

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name one-- realisticly

 

It seems we have many varieties of religion, however the only relevant definition in this argument seems to be those definitions dealing with Atheism vs. Theism.

IMO, Atheism is most often a religion. Exceptions could be made for those atheistic thinkers completely void of assumptions or beliefs about the origin of things. As the base argument between Atheism and Theism exists solely in the realm of this one event.

 

Hardly one event, but I understand your meaning and I fit that catagory

 

Nearly all the atheists I know, myself included, are agnostic atheists. I don't claim to know that there is no god/creator, but in the absence to date of any evidence whatsoever, I choose not to believe in a mythological explanation introduced a few thousand years ago by profoundly ignorant primitive peoples.

Atheism isn't a religion. there is no scripture. there is no ritual. there are not houses of "not worship" , there isn't any worshiping, praying, prostrating, genuflection, there is no apostasy, there is no absolution, there is no concept of an afterlife for adherence to non-existent dogma.

 

Curious as to what compels you to attach atheist to your self-description. Since you have no stance, it would seem you fit the perfect definition of Agnostic.

Atheism (Anti-Theism) appears to chose a stance. Whether or not there is scripture or ritual or churches or anything else, is irrelevant. A religion is nothing more than a "belief system". I believe they are both the same. All belief systems seem require some sort of faith in something.

 

Atheism is NOT anti-theism. Atheism is A theism as in A political. This is where so many people have the wrong idea.
Anti-Theism is something else.

 

Hard to fit that category if you assume more than one event, I would guess.

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Ok, I'll bite on your semantics. No matter, it's still a belief that Theism is incorrect. Notice the requirement of the word "belief".

 

Do you stress over whether Zeus really lives on Mt Olympus? Do you really have a belief one way or the other? Do you care?
My guess is that you have a lack of belief, you do not consider such an absurd idea worthy of belief or even dis-belief. Welcome to the wonderful world of Atheism. Try another one, have you ever considered whether the God of the tribes that created the heads on Easter Island exists? Is it even worth you finding out his name and telling me you do not believe in him/it/her?