Atheists & Agnostics

lindysalsagal

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11. negation of religion is also an ideology

Sat Jan 14, 2012, 12:11 PM

Jan 2012

No. it's not. These are not teams: Life is not football. This only seems like it's athiests vs believers because believers want something from athiests that they won't get: Affirmation in the tooth fairy, or whatever else you believe in.

There is no title for people who don't believe in the tooth fairy, or don't believe in luck, or don't believe in unicorns, or don't believe in lucky charms. They're called grown ups.

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Religion: History's very first panopticon. [View all] backscatter712 Jan 2012 OP

The New Testament invented thought-crime. laconicsax Jan 2012 #1

? greyl Jan 2012 #2

Very true. Look at the Ten Commandments... backscatter712 Jan 2012 #3

You're right. My mistake. laconicsax Jan 2012 #4

Disdain manipulates too. husserl49 Jan 2012 #5

Semantics manipulates too AlbertCat Jan 2012 #6

Organizations organize husserl49 Jan 2012 #8

What do you think of Pat Robertson? FiveGoodMen Jan 2012 #9

Organized religion is simply not ancient government. AlbertCat Jan 2012 #14

Religion probably pre-dates literacy... rexcat Jan 2012 #7

negation of religion is also an ideology lindysalsagal Jan 2012 #11

What's this "negation of religion" you refer to? EvolveOrConvolve Jan 2012 #12

Regardless of what early ideas caused the formation of religion... awoke_in_2003 Jan 2012 #13

I think you're right. Deep13 Jan 2012 #10