ATHEISM ISN'T A RELIG-


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You are sublimating a positive statement with a negative one. Atheism is the absence of belief, not a belief of absence.

If atheism is the absence of belief, then it wouldn't be able to say that any god does not exist, it would be indifferent. Once you say "X is not real" that is a belief of absence. For your statement to be true atheism would be "indifference towards any religious idea"

so what you are suggesting is that in arguing against something that is causing a quantifiable detriment to the world, an atheist is expressing a religious belief?
I can see your argument, in that one of the 5 primary definitions of religion as a noun could be used, with your logic, to define the absence of belief as the belief of absence. However, arguing the semantics of one of the 5 definitions of the noun "Religion" in order to attempt to squeeze atheism into the same box as say, christianity or hinduism, is pedantic at best and dishonest at worst.

"something that is causing a quantifiable detriment to the world" I would say that is not religion in itself, but rather people "misusing" it. Religion is a set of ideas, those who follow it can help or harm the world, for there are examples of religious groups that actively help the world.

And that is why I said "if you use," meaning that under that definition atheism falls, under another one it wouldn't

So I guess most people are a part of millions of different religions, one for each fictional entity they have a "belief in the non-existence" of? That logic is pathetically flawed and you know it.

Well, that is part of the religion. I am sure that Allah is not happy with Krishna