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In reply to the discussion: I am not religious. Can you please categorize Atheism into a "race"? [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)I can tell ya this--I can't prove it isn't....and neither can you! I can't prove it's not a "belief system," like the DOD graves folks aver, either.
I accept what an atheist (or a theist, or agnostic) tells me about their belief system(s). I don't feel a need to lecture people and tell them that they don't believe what they say they believe, that their religion is not a religion, or that hair color, television or baldness determines what someone on the internet tells them they are "allowed" to believe because they read and repeated what some loudmouth pundit wrote in a blog somewhere. Live and let live.
If those atheists want to call their belief system a religion, a faith, an amusing diversion, or what-have-you, who am I to judge? It's THEIR belief, they own it--it is not mine, nor yours.