Re: Atheists dying

From: Gactimus (gactimus_at_xrs.net)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:19:00 +0000 (UTC)

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?

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