Re: Atheists dying

From: raven1 (quoththeraven_at_nevermore.com)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:44:31 GMT

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:19:00 +0000 (UTC), Gactimus <gactimus@xrs.net>
wrote:

>Christopher A. Lee <calee@optonline.net> wrote in
>news:24vpi05dhaoinhiofrc32doik0hk28nkvs@4ax.com:
>
>> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:47:12 GMT, raven1 <quoththeraven@nevermore.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Which was a complete non-sequitur. So why say it?
>>
>>> Atheism is essentially an absence of belief in the existence of
>>> deities, and implies no other positions philosophically, politically,
>>> or otherwise.
>>
>> It's the simple absence of the defining property of most Western
>> religions. Which makes it a metaconcept at least one level removed
>> from religion.
>>
>> As I said, anybody who imagines atheism is a religion is being stupid.
>>
>> When he repeats it after he has been corrected, he's being worse than
>> stupid.
>
>Making up the rules as you go are we?

Please feel free to explain in what respect the absence of belief in
deities is a religion. Be specific.

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