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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
Why do people love to claim this? Atheists make up a small percent of society and for the most part are not an organized group of people. It's not a religion. Their is no "dogma" and no great leader determining what all atheists must believe. A very few are vocal and politically active, and this seems to stick in the craw of some Christians.
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I tend to think of those people as fundamentalist atheists, and some of them annoy almost as much as do some fundamentalist Christians.
Atheism certainly can be a religion, depending on how one defines religion. (And of course, to the degree it is, it is a
very disorganized and individualized religion.) And I have known atheists who can be just as dogmatic about their belief system as the most dogmatic Christian.
But that's no reason to use such a broad brush in painting all atheists, anymore than it would be reason to use a broad brush in painting all Christians. Life is much more nuanced than that.
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