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By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:28:02 +0000

I myself am against any organized religion but I’m not an atheist. A brief study of the history of all major religions, possibly with the exception of Buddhism, will show that it is a political tool used to control the masses.

But I also reject the strictly materialist view that the universe is simply dead electrons screaming through an empty void. I find the universe full of great wonders, magic(of the Arthur C. Clark definition) and purpose. What this purpose is I don’t understand anymore than a bacterium in my belly understands the purpose of me.

By: eyp

eyp — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:08:49 +0000

Absence of evidence actually is evidence of absence. (Did you even think about that statement before you started parroting it?) If it weren’t, your failure to accept the existence of invisible gremlins, pink unicorns, and flying spaghetti monsters is great act of faith.

If atheism is a religion then not stamp collecting is a hobby.

By: Krisser

Krisser — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:00:32 +0000

All religions has rituals. I don’t think Atheism has any.

By: Thomas B.

Thomas B. — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:01:04 +0000

Atheism is a faith. It requires faith to believe in a god without proof, but conversely, the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. You can’t prove that there is no god, so in order to believe that there is no god, an atheist must have faith.

By: eyp

eyp — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:22:25 +0000

Atheism is not a faith. And I don’t know how many atheists were born into it, but I don’t see the necessity of giving it a second thought. (Necessity in this case meaning: a face in the sky, a booming voice, etc.)

By: Jadeia

Jadeia — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 20:43:23 +0000

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