I have both extreme Christians in my family and an extreme atheist, and I've noticed that the atheist is just as fanatical about his beliefs as the Christians. He throws around the words "truth" and "science" similar to the way Christians cling to the word "faith". He quotes Richard Dawkins as though The God Delusion were a Bible. He even went to an atheist meetup the other day, and it reminded me a lot of when we used to go to Sunday school.
The way I see it, atheism is a religion, only they worship science instead of a God and Dawkins is their Pope.
re·li·gion
/riˈlijən/
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The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or gods.
However fanatical your brother may or may not be it simply is not possible for an Atheist to be in an Atheist religion. It is a contradiction in terms. Like a visually perceptive blind man or a deaf person with superb hearing.
"the atheist is just as fanatical about his beliefs..."
That's where you went off the rails. Atheism rejects belief-systems, we demand evidence before treating something as real or existent.
If you claim that there is a mind-controlling satellite orbiting Jupiter and it implants thoughts in your head, that might be true-if it can be proven such a device exists.
But until it has been proven it is assumed a priori to not exist. Likewise with gods, demons, spooks, unicorns, etc-they are not real until proven to be with hard, irrefutable evidence.
We atheists have no church or a pope, or venerate any scientist as if they were a god. These are all the silly musings of theists who see the world through their own warped religious lens in which they see contradicting views as a competing religion. In fact atheism is the exact opposite of religion and I'd include science as well.
Is Atheism becoming a 'relgion' in it's self.
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I have both extreme Christians in my family and an extreme atheist, and I've noticed that the atheist is just as fanatical about his beliefs as the Christians. He throws around the words "truth" and "science" similar to the way Christians cling to the word "faith". He quotes Richard Dawkins as though The God Delusion were a Bible. He even went to an atheist meetup the other day, and it reminded me a lot of when we used to go to Sunday school.
The way I see it, atheism is a religion, only they worship science instead of a God and Dawkins is their Pope.
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re·li·gion
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The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or gods.
However fanatical your brother may or may not be it simply is not possible for an Atheist to be in an Atheist religion. It is a contradiction in terms. Like a visually perceptive blind man or a deaf person with superb hearing.
"the atheist is just as fanatical about his beliefs..."
That's where you went off the rails. Atheism rejects belief-systems, we demand evidence before treating something as real or existent.
If you claim that there is a mind-controlling satellite orbiting Jupiter and it implants thoughts in your head, that might be true-if it can be proven such a device exists.
But until it has been proven it is assumed a priori to not exist. Likewise with gods, demons, spooks, unicorns, etc-they are not real until proven to be with hard, irrefutable evidence.
We atheists have no church or a pope, or venerate any scientist as if they were a god. These are all the silly musings of theists who see the world through their own warped religious lens in which they see contradicting views as a competing religion. In fact atheism is the exact opposite of religion and I'd include science as well.
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There is evidence that God exists
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We've been waiting 2000 years for it, so far all we've gotten from you theists is empty promises.