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Atheists & Agnostics

jeff47

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23. Yes, it is.

Reply to LostOne4Ever (Reply #20)

Thu Aug 14, 2014, 12:37 PM

Aug 2014

I don't think that simply believing in deities is enough on its own to make it a religious belief. Lets say there is a person who believes there are gods, but does not act on that belief in anyway. They get up, go to work, come home, and go to sleep just the same as when they didn't believe.

You don't have to follow the dictates of a religion for it to be a religion.

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Why is the Atheists & Agnostics (Group) listed under religion & spiriuality? [View all] yortsed snacilbuper Aug 2014 OP

we are all highly spiriual. Warren Stupidity Aug 2014 #1

Science would be good, yortsed snacilbuper Aug 2014 #4

we could go under Brainstormy Aug 2014 #14

"Addiction and Recovery?" AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #17

Hell, I'm high right now. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #16

We ask that question frequently. Curmudgeoness Aug 2014 #2

Atheism is a religious stance. nt ZombieHorde Aug 2014 #3

Like unstamp collecting is a hobby Heddi Aug 2014 #6

There is a difference between religion and a religious stance. ZombieHorde Aug 2014 #7

Put it this way, defacto7 Aug 2014 #18

If there were no theistic religions, we wouldn't have the word "atheism." ZombieHorde Aug 2014 #24

Atheism is the lack of a religious belief. jeff47 Aug 2014 #5

Atheism is not the lack of religious belief. ZombieHorde Aug 2014 #8

And since belief in gods is a religious belief jeff47 Aug 2014 #9

Yes, but an atheist can have religious beliefs. ZombieHorde Aug 2014 #10

Damn these people using the colloquial definition! jeff47 Aug 2014 #11

"an atheist can have religious beliefs." yortsed snacilbuper Aug 2014 #12

Being an atheist has no purpose. ZombieHorde Aug 2014 #13

"Being an atheist has no purpose." yortsed snacilbuper Aug 2014 #15

I do like that goal, but not all atheists care about that very much. ZombieHorde Aug 2014 #25

No gods. Buddhists have no gods. Warren Stupidity Aug 2014 #22

Is it? LostOne4Ever Aug 2014 #20

Yes, it is. jeff47 Aug 2014 #23

Of course it's wrong to call it a "lack". That suggests we are missing something mr blur Aug 2014 #21

True. I ain't lackin' shit. Iggo Aug 2014 #28

There is no "being an Atheist" defacto7 Aug 2014 #19

It's to make it difficult to find it - mr blur Aug 2014 #26

Because there's really nowhere else to put it? trotsky Aug 2014 #27

It may not make much sense EvolveOrConvolve Aug 2014 #29