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User avatar #43 - majordraco ONLINE (01/03/2013) [-]
Every One knows that Atheism is the easiest religion to troll.
#81 to #43 - Dap (01/03/2013) [-]
ATHEISM ISN'T A RELIG-


.....iseewhatyoudidthere
#154 to #81 - doctorgiano (01/03/2013) [-]
actually, if you use "a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith" (Merriam-Webster definition), an Atheism has a believe on the non-existence of any supernatural being, which would make it a religion
#426 to #154 - teranin ONLINE (01/03/2013) [-]
You are sublimating a positive statement with a negative one. Atheism is the absence of belief, not a belief of absence.
#427 to #426 - doctorgiano (01/03/2013) [-]
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"
#430 to #427 - teranin ONLINE (01/03/2013) [-]
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.
#434 to #430 - doctorgiano (01/04/2013) [-]
"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
User avatar #252 to #154 - HonkIfIDriveWell (01/03/2013) [-]
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.
User avatar #411 to #252 - doctorgiano (01/03/2013) [-]
Well, that is part of the religion. I am sure that Allah is not happy with Krishna
#44 to #43 - coolcalx (01/03/2013) [-]
7/10 you almost got me
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