Re: Atheists dying

From: bob young (alaspectrum_at_netvigator.com)
Date: 08/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:22:30 +0800

Gactimus 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?

You sound cynical anmd bitter. Is that the description of the average
theist?

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one
fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other
possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
[Stephen Roberts]

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