Re: Atheists dying

From: thomas p (thomasagainspam_at_yahoo.dk)
Date: 08/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:50:17 +0200

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:03:40 GMT, Gactimus <gactimus@xrs.net> wrote:

>"John Baker" <nunya@bizniz.net> wrote in
>news:pLnXc.10180$0J6.6598@fe1.columbus.rr.com:
>
>> "Gactimus" <gactimus@xrs.net> wrote in message
>> news:Xns95515FEF3D516PQ@alaska.local...
>>
>>> thomas p <thomasagainspam@yahoo.dk> wrote in
>>> news:g52qi01kkg9ch708a22gb2mphqts69ec8q@4ax.com:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:36:53 +0000 (UTC), Gactimus <gactimus@xrs.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Christopher A. Lee <calee@optonline.net> wrote in
>>>>> news:l5gpi05bk3st2felatlqv95boke1unbbsg@4ax.com:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:43:31 -0400, Singleterry
>>>>>> <singleterry@aol.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Gactimus <gactimus@xrs.net> wrote in
>>>>>>> news:cgi75t$trj$1@news1.usf.edu:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I just want to know how any Atheists feel about dying.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Atheism is just a religion for people with no ability to trust or
>>>>>>> even feel beyond their fingers. Atheism is stupid and pointless.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anybody who imagines atheism is a religion is being stupid. We're
>>>>>> simply people who aren't theist. It is no more a religion than being
>>>>>> barefoot is wearing shoes.
>>>>>
>>>>> God is not a prerequisite for religion.
>>>>
>>>> But a system of religious beliefs is. Atheism is not a belief system
>>>> of any kind.
>>>
>>> Wrong. Atheism is based on the belief that there is no god.
>>
>> <sigh> Yet another brain-dead fundy trying to tell atheists what they
>> really believe. Here's a free clue, Sparky. We're atheists. You aren't.
>> We know what atheism is. You don't.
>

>Kind of like all the atheist armchair theologians who claim to know what
>Christianity is.

Atheism is still just a lack of belief in a deity. Nothing else is
required for a person to be an atheist, and lack of a belief cannot
reasonably be called a religion. Don't let the real world disturb you
though.

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