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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
So? Why should/does this matter to you? Does a belief system need at least a 100 million followers for AOII Angel to consider it valid?
I take it you're not familiar with the writings Dawkins or Hitchens but either way there are many religions without the Pope-like supreme leader. Don't even try to tell me that atheists don't proselytize either.
I'm not calling atheism a religion to necessarily insult, but to call them out. They claim the desire to live free from having others religion thrown in their face yet they throw their religion around. As a non religious man myself, I find these atheism groups very ironic, as do many others.
Actually it doesn't. I know non-religious mostly keep to themselves but I was speaking of organized atheism (specifically AA) in my original post. Maybe I should have added a disclaimer 
Also, can you point to some examples of how the government regularly supports Christianity?
Two words for you- conscientious objector. |
I actually have read both Dawkins and Hitchens. Not religion. Mostly science, but not religion. Last time I checked, religion involves the worship of some thing or ideal. Atheism...not so much. If you were discussing a specific group of atheists, then yes, you should have specified that group, otherwise, your statement was ridiculous, inflammatory and ignorant. As AnotherKD pointed out, you wouldn't be able to pick out most athiests because they don't discuss it. Mostly because people who are ignorant decide to throw their own religions in their faces. This is just as offensive as making sweeping generalizations about Jewish people, Catholics, Mormons, etc. You just feel justified because people don't stand up for those with no belief.
BTW, AOII ritual is a belief system. Is that a religion? I feel very strongly about it, as do many of my 140,000 sisters. It's actually written out, unlike the supposed "belief system" of athiests. You have a very loose definition of religion.