Atheism is not a religion? Tell that to Athe! I could understand saying that agnoscticism is not a religion because it does not make a religious claim, but merely an epistemic claim, but to say that an explicit belief that God is non-extistent (incoherent though that is) is not a religious view, nor a form of religion, expecially when it is organized as a religion and conducts prostelytic campaigns with fundamentalist fervor—well, that’s just disingenuous.
I thought “Athe” is a joke, a fictional goddess worshipped by Athe-ists? Besides which, it could be argued that it is possible to have a religion that endorses atheism—some forms of Buddhism, for example—but atheism itself is no more a religion than monotheism, polytheism, or dualism. I suppose this would change the analogy to “curly is a hair color”.
Atheism is not a religion? Tell that to Athe! I could understand saying that agnoscticism is not a religion because it does not make a religious claim, but merely an epistemic claim, but to say that an explicit belief that God is non-extistent (incoherent though that is) is not a religious view, nor a form of religion, expecially when it is organized as a religion and conducts prostelytic campaigns with fundamentalist fervor—well, that’s just disingenuous.
I thought “Athe” is a joke, a fictional goddess worshipped by Athe-ists? Besides which, it could be argued that it is possible to have a religion that endorses atheism—some forms of Buddhism, for example—but atheism itself is no more a religion than monotheism, polytheism, or dualism. I suppose this would change the analogy to “curly is a hair color”.
Of course, definitions may vary.