Organized Atheism (And so it begins...)

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CAT FIGHT!!!

Could we get a moderator in here please?

Somebody's gonna get a run in their nylons.
 
c0de said:
really?

.. well, in that case, I'll just stop posting on this forum.

Since I don't want to be the source of any... complications...
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Don't read into that. Unless you banned someone, I don't believe for a second that you were the source of any... complications...
 
Tao_Equus said:
There is a big difference between organising to promote reason and intellectual honesty than from organising based on some medieval doctrine. Trying to say it is the same thing may bring you some self-justified comfort, play to your sense of there being 'no difference', but the truth is there is all the difference in the world. Humanism has been around a while and shows no inclination to descend into the mindless drivel that religions foment. Maybe you just realise at the back of your mind somewhere that organised atheism could well render you a minority delusional 'nutter' :eek::D;)
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It is *so* difficult to tell the zealots apart from each other... ;)
 
Tao_Equus said:
I find that some people are determined to define atheism as a religion and refuse to budge from that. Sometimes its almost like they need it to be that way as a prop for their own insecurities in their faith. "ATHEISM IS MYTH UNDERSTOOD"
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I like the bumper sticker.

Frankly I have no need to prop up any insecurities. And I still see atheism as fulfilling the same psychological memetic function that religion does.
 
path_of_one said:
It can be disheartening to be disliked by both atheists and religionists, nearly equally, but I don't take it personally. They generally like me in other ways, and I'm a forgiving sort, so I often just call them on their biases (from either camp) and then move along to some more mutually satisfactory item of conversation. :)
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And that's why I love you so around here!
 
Tao_Equus said:
We arrive alone, depart alone and its not much different between. Each of us has a singular world-view formed from a unique history of experience. That can never be fully shared.
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I agree. I merely differ in the understanding of how it all relates to the total of reality, seen and unseen.
 
And so it begins?

Obviously without the presence of tone, It is hard to read text... But, to me that sounds like you know....

You have rights to gather and organise kissing Allahs bottom. Or YHWH's or whoever the pagan wood fairy of pixies or whatever the pagans are into.... Why "so it begins" for people who don't buy into all that hocus pocus bs? They have their -rights- to gather and organise too! Everyone is free to organise! :D Well... Most... Nazi's and the Mob... And so on... And people in white hoods... That doesn't seem to be acceptable... But then again.... Never mind.. Different topic for another day.
 
At one time, atheists could claim to somehow, mystically and mysteriously, be different in their religion from all the other religions. Now, it appears, the atheists wish to simply embrace all the trappings of religion as well as its fundamental psychological underpinnings.
 
Dogbrain said:
At one time, atheists could claim to somehow, mystically and mysteriously, be different in their religion from all the other religions. Now, it appears, the atheists wish to simply embrace all the trappings of religion as well as its fundamental psychological underpinnings.
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And you base that statement on...?
 
It's so tempting to call Atheism a religion. I can understand your desire to make it one.

But is it a religion to merely think, "I don't believe in your God"?

Can you be a religion without a canon, tenets, a hierarchy of elders or clergy, or leader?

If you think atheism is a religion, does that mean you'll support my qualifying for tax exempt status as religions today enjoy?
 
Organized atheism is better than organized anarchy. :p

It seems logical. Like an organized general humanitarian effort without God getting all the credit. Doesn't sound like it'll hurt. Might do some good...

*shrugs shoulders* Meh, what's the big deal?
 
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