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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)Are you the Pope of Atheists?
I provide links--you provide angry "all caps" diatribes trying to create a strawman that I somehow have appointed myself God.
You don't speak for all atheists--you sure as heck don't speak for the ones at these Sunday Assemblies.
I think you need to re-read the material I offered you. You're apparently glossing over it. Start with this:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/apr/04/religion-without-god/?pagination=false
Then, check this out--it's just a blurb, but the point is pretty clear:
http://alaindebotton.com/religion/
It seems pretty straightforward if you'd just stop allowing your biases to interfere with your processing of the material. I'm not going to return your insults, as they don't really bother me, and have no effect on my thought processes here. FWIW all they do is weaken your arguments. There's no need to get angry with me because you aren't making your case. This isn't about who's who in the DU AA forum, this is about a global paradigm shift. If you're telling me what I'm allowed to think or say, you DO have a dogma and a doctrine, even if you don't quite understand that.
You can either confront these paradigm shifts and see them for what they are, as they evolve before our eyes, or you can stick your head in the sand and insist this is just not happening, even as it does. Your choice!