Comments on: Atheism as a religion

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:29:55 +0000

Interesting about the subscribers to Wicca. I don’t know any, but tree-hugging hippies love nothing better than force their beliefs on others.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:15:45 +0000

Well to be fair, to a scientifically enlightened person being too stupid (ignorant) to understand a concept would be the greatest suffering. So basically that sounds like the atheist equivalent of telling you, you’re going to hell.

Finding these comparisons is fun :)

By: James

James — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:22:59 +0000

Congratulations, you’re the first person to hit it on the head. Most of the Atheists have just been calling me stupid or issuing death threats.

Religious fanatics, really.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:13:48 +0000

Wow, I rarely call people out for their view points, but HFL you obviously didn’t read anymore than the title of James’ post.

You succeed in demonstrating the same close mindedness that atheists often blame religious devotes of having. You call the poster “truly ignorant” but add the caveat that you only point it out since you doubt he wants to stay ignorant (to your point of view). You skipped #2 and went right to #3.

You then fail to explain anything other than two anecdotal examples which fail to enlighten anything other than the dangers of miss classification of stamp collectors and bald people. The first one is simply boolean since you either do or don’t collect stamps. The second, genetically a brown haired person can also be bald they just don’t demonstrate the trait for brown hair anymore.

Now not to let James off the hook here…
I would argue that Atheism isn’t a religion so to speak, but that religions and atheism are both forms of organized belief structures. Which are all susceptible to the list of character traits James listed. To me this means Atheists aren’t as greatly evolved as they like to think they are.

The only organized belief structure I’ve personally observed that has not tried to push their beliefs onto others is Wicca. So I’d like to congratulate both mainstream religions and atheism for being shown up by a bunch of earth loving tree huggers.

By: James

James — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:49:28 +0000

And yet, it bears all the hallmarks of one. Like any religion it is a world view that people subscribe to. Like religion, once they become believers, they seek to surround themselves with others of a like mind, express the superiority of their view, and convert or belittle those who do not agree with them.

While they certainly do not express a faith in any form of higher being, they behave in a manner consistent with those who do.

By: Hieronymus Fortesque Lickspittle

Hieronymus Fortesque Lickspittle — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:54:43 +0000

Atheism is of course not a religion and it is truly ignorant for you to think that it is. I’m commenting because I doubt you really want to stay ignorant. It’s as if you are saying to someone who doesn’t collect stamps that they really are a stamp collector. It’s like telling someone completely bald they have brown hair.