Go ahead and be uncomfortable; in 20 years, people are going to perceive your intolerance of
atheism in the same light that discrimination against black is today.
It had nothing to do
with atheism and everything to do with power.
Think of
atheism as seeing the same illustration after you've learned of the trick, or as watching a magic show after you've learned of slight of hand.
Sure, that's an argument for my statement, seeing as how
atheism does not constitute any set of doctrines of beliefs.
What it does say is something about the individual, just as what one atheist believes says something about that particular atheist,
not atheism in general.
You can't build an ideology
on atheism because it is simply a stance on one single issue.
On the other hand, there is nothing that can be made fun of
about atheism.
There is tons of proof to support this, and not
from atheism dot com either.
There seems to be no common accepted definition on
what atheism means.
You make it sound as
if atheism had something to do with their decline, which it did NOT.
You've improved my view of
atheism by reading of your kindness.
By the way, putting down anyone who does not believe in
atheism makes you just like this soldier.
That's
because atheism is technically a religion, they just hate being called out on it.
I don't see how you can't
say atheism is its own religion.
I'm using actions from atheists that display they have turned
atheism into a religion.
Your first problem here is that you don't seem to
understand atheism in the general sense.
But I simply don't understand
how atheism leads to happiness.
I don't know why you hate it when people
call atheism a religion.
See, this is
why atheism really needs to develop some better arguments for itself.
Since it apparently needs clarification, my intent was not to
include atheism as a religious group, but to speak to the vast number of atheists that treat it as such.
You know as well as I that my arguments
against atheism won't change your mind and your arguments won't change my mind.
Once they start
promoting atheism as the correct «way of thinking» they are essentially promoting it as «what they believe», ie.
Being agnostic I find
atheism just as intrusive as a regular religion.
I seriously considered
atheism at points in my life.
Throughout history,
when atheism got mixed with power NOTHING stopped them from killing religious people.
Personally, it was my pursuit of knowledge of my own religion that eventually led me down the path
towards atheism.
Whether you practice religion or not, if you still believe in god, you aren't
trying atheism.
While none of us know if there is a god,
atheism seems much more logical.
The arguments over
atheism vs. religion are always the same.
I'm a writer, and I know for certain I couldn't write a piece on religion without my
strong atheism roots affect the words I use and the points I make.