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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)324. You should check your work. Or not. nt
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I am not religious. Can you please categorize Atheism into a "race"? [View all]
Quantess
Nov 2015
OP
That's a right wing Christian myth, Consevapedia and FreeRepublic claim atheism is a religion too.
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#44
I noticed that too. Makes you wonder where else these people hang out.
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#102
That poster said we worship and you argued the point so I'm asking you.
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#49
I am not going to argue with it as a way of identifying the characteristics of a person's
MADem
Nov 2015
#62
Is bald a hair colour or not? Here's the dictionary definition if you need assistance:
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#63
Apparently--and this angers you because you keep asking the question--it is NOT a "yes or no"
MADem
Nov 2015
#73
Actually I knew you couldn't prove it, I just wanted to watch you try.
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#74
Dropping the ball, pulling out the hat tip emoticon, running away from the argument, and
MADem
Nov 2015
#151
Because not believing in fairies is the same thing believing in fairies, amirite?
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#159
Now that you finally admitted that atheism isn't a religion we're all done!
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#169
It's kind of sad how you always try to play that "Now that you've finally admitted" game when
MADem
Nov 2015
#172
Ha ha ha....of COURSE you didn't! Can't have those paradigms challenged, can we?
MADem
Nov 2015
#176
Declare victory/TLDR/yawn--you'd be better off just buckling down and learning something.
MADem
Nov 2015
#181
These are the same folks who will bleat about pastafarianism not being "a real religion"
Warren DeMontague
Nov 2015
#242
The hypocrisy is unbelievable. Stereotyping, intolerance, redefining words, just like Conservapedia.
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#244
No. But a group that gets together, has ministers, gets an IRS tax exemption in USA, and
MADem
Nov 2015
#162
"No." So atheism is not a religion? Good! Glad you finally figured that out!
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#166
All over the world. Go to Youtube, punch in Sunday Assembly, and watch what pops up.
MADem
Nov 2015
#195
Well, if these congregations aren't screeching and whining about it, why should I?
MADem
Nov 2015
#207
Right? I love how people expose their prejudices in threads like this.
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#105
Maybe they'll evolve. It just takes some people longer to learn to be tolerant.
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#239
Critical thinking is just another exercise in pursuing unsubstantiated bullshit!
Warren DeMontague
Nov 2015
#243
Sure, many outspoken minorities seem uppity to certain kinds of people.
beam me up scottie
Dec 2015
#372
Well I'll just have to take your word for that, my sneering, self-righteous friend.
beam me up scottie
Dec 2015
#374
I'm sorry, but weren't you just complaining about a smug sense of superiority?
Act_of_Reparation
Dec 2015
#379
And the irony is lost on you as you say this with your own smug sense of superiority.
cleanhippie
Dec 2015
#383
Years ago I used to refer to myself as agnostic because the label 'atheist' makes you a target.
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#117
Me too, had a couple of close calls and never prayed. Never even thought about it.
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#120
If atheism is a religion bald is a hair colour and barefoot is a shoe.
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#16
On my government loan application, under spouse, I was instructed to write "none" or "N/A" if single
Hassin Bin Sober
Nov 2015
#88
Lol! That bald being a hair colour canard because...driver's licences is the same thing.
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#99
Except for disease-free which is actually a type of STD you get from abstinence.
GoneFishin
Nov 2015
#111
On other parts of the internet, people don't mind the reference to atheism as a religion~!
AlbertCat
Nov 2015
#30
Nice gish gallop, but where do the people in the articles you cited claim atheism is a religion?
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#48
Gish gallop? You're telling me those people at those Sunday Assemblies are not atheists?
MADem
Nov 2015
#51
Now you're trying to move the goalposts. The question is whether atheism is a religion.
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#53
I said it was a BELIEF SYSTEM. You keep throwing out the R word--and some atheists apparently
MADem
Nov 2015
#57
Because that was the claim we objected to, that atheism is a religion:
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#60
There are atheist ministers. If they want to call it a religion, I don't quibble.
MADem
Nov 2015
#64
It's not my job to disprove that poster's claim, and again they're not an atheist.
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#69
Well there goes the theory that you believe you're the center of the universe.
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#160
I never claimed to own it, I am just using the actual definition instead of your fantasy nt
LostOne4Ever
Nov 2015
#232
See, they aren't God EITHER! And listen to you, with your "actual atheist" snobbery!
MADem
Nov 2015
#229
You keep trying to insist that there are "rules" to atheism, and you're trying to act like the
MADem
Dec 2015
#251
Wow, you really have no freaking clue about anything you are talking about in this thread do you?
LostOne4Ever
Dec 2015
#256
You should watch the videos, and listen to what the PEOPLE are saying. It would help you understand
MADem
Dec 2015
#257
No you were banned for telling people what to think just like you are trying to do now
LostOne4Ever
Dec 2015
#262
'The linked source is spinning his words, it's a right wing rag run by the Heritage Foundation.'
MADem
Dec 2015
#263
The Sunday Assembly is not a borg. And unlike you, they have no doctrine or dogma.
MADem
Dec 2015
#279
No, just your arguments are nothing. Because you don't even understand the basic argument.
LostOne4Ever
Dec 2015
#302
I provided links that stated otherwise. Not sure where you get the authority to make that claim.
MADem
Dec 2015
#308
Dead white racist atheists...I don't think these two wanted to kill any Muslims!
MADem
Dec 2015
#285
"Feynman: An atheist. Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer..."
beam me up scottie
Dec 2015
#309
It's pretty clear that, no matter what he said in response to that question, that he was uncertain.
MADem
Dec 2015
#310
Agnostic atheists aren't certain, that's why it's called 'agnostic' atheism - still atheism.
beam me up scottie
Dec 2015
#311
I didn't think you would understand, it's never easy for fundamentalist thinkers.
beam me up scottie
Dec 2015
#329
Nothing to do with black and white--it has to do with what the gentleman actually said.
MADem
Dec 2015
#331
Read through all of the definitions again and let me know which parts are confusing you.
beam me up scottie
Dec 2015
#333
So you refuse to even try to learn about agnostic atheism, how unexpected!
beam me up scottie
Dec 2015
#338
And then he acknowledges there is a possibility (albeit a low one) that he could be wrong.
MADem
Dec 2015
#314
As I said, and you're ignoring, he qualified his response with his waffling in the next paragraph.
MADem
Dec 2015
#317
Why do the atheists have to be dead? Live ones can't define atheism because...
beam me up scottie
Dec 2015
#293
You can keep running around and cheerleading those who are contributing to the conversation if you'd
MADem
Dec 2015
#296
I don't understand why you can't stop telling us we practice a religion because we say so.
beam me up scottie
Dec 2015
#300
Well, I'm not really conversing with you. You keep jumping in with your booya stuff,
MADem
Dec 2015
#313
I asked a question. Why do you keep telling us what we think and believe?
beam me up scottie
Dec 2015
#315
Is Thomas Aquinas one of those "dead, white racist angry atheists" too?
beam me up scottie
Dec 2015
#269
Oops, I got confused. So much misinformation in this one thread I just can't keep track of it all.
beam me up scottie
Dec 2015
#272
And Oxford University and the Religious Tolerance Website are devoted to Genocide of the religious
LostOne4Ever
Dec 2015
#273
There seems to be a need for some to redefine a minority/movement whenever they get too uppity.
beam me up scottie
Dec 2015
#276
EXACTLY! That could be any uppity minority saying "NO" to the majority!
beam me up scottie
Dec 2015
#278
Well in order to be correct one has to be dead, white, non-racist and an atheist.
beam me up scottie
Dec 2015
#295
No one is getting riled up about the Sunday Assembly but you. Most of us are indifferent to them
LostOne4Ever
Dec 2015
#330
You don't really know a thing about me. And bigger letters doesn't make it "better."
MADem
Dec 2015
#332
Your first video (the short one) didn't say a word about atheism being a religion
LostOne4Ever
Dec 2015
#353
I don't know why you think that older atheists are the mouthy activists and the millenials aren't
cemaphonic
Dec 2015
#361
They said without a trace of irony after insisting only dead, white, non-racist atheists count.
beam me up scottie
Dec 2015
#301
You are hilarious. Link after link from credible sources proving you wrong and still you dig in.
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#238
Why are the opinions of dead, white racist angry atheists "credible?" I don't think bigots are
MADem
Dec 2015
#260
ZOMG! ALL of the people in those links are "dead, white racist angry atheists"?
beam me up scottie
Dec 2015
#261
Well done, LO4E!!! I can't believe they're still pretending their definition is correct.
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#236
Another fail! Strawman! Agnostic atheists don't "claim to have all the answers".
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#154
The referee meme only works if you speak from a position of authority, which clearly, you do not.
MADem
Nov 2015
#193
No, it's not a "belief system" either and that's why it is not a "religion"
rjsquirrel
Dec 2015
#350
What is a religion? A set of beliefs, principles, guidelines that people adhere to, in an organized
MADem
Nov 2015
#134
So AA is a religion? A book club? What about volunteers at a shelter?
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#163
Like I said, you've seen the error of your ways so there's really no need to continue.
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#171
Again--there has been no "error of my ways" --trying to pretend otherwise is a real loser
MADem
Nov 2015
#174
The bible belt, well that explains where you got the bigoted stereotype about atheism.
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#97
No, I'm not--but you sure are. Here you are, continuing to "make the rules" for the atheists!
MADem
Dec 2015
#254
No, I'm not. I'm simply talking about one specific religion of atheists called the Sunday Assembly.
MADem
Dec 2015
#259
Yes, you are. You've been judging me and others in nearly every one of your posts
Orrex
Dec 2015
#264
Now you're down to name calling? Judgmental? A hypocrite? An outright liar? THAT's what you call
MADem
Dec 2015
#268
I called you judgmental and a hypocrite because you *are* a judgmental hypocrite
Orrex
Dec 2015
#341
That is simply not true. You're just angry that I don't agree with YOUR opinions, and so you
MADem
Dec 2015
#344
Atheists that despise Muslims and often are closely associated with the neocons
cpwm17
Nov 2015
#116
The term is used as a slur by anti-atheist bigots, and I notice you didn't eliminate Dennett, why?
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#122
No, new atheists do not "tend to be pro-war, or at least rather bigoted".
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#125
So what? Are all Muslims jihadists because some bigots associate them with Bin Laden?
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#127
Harris and the late Hitchens don't despise Muslims. They despise the text and what it teaches.
LiberalAndProud
Nov 2015
#131
I love how this thread reveals the subconscious self-loathing of religious folks
whatthehey
Nov 2015
#83
Race is a social construct rather than a biological division. Make your own categories
Agnosticsherbet
Nov 2015
#103
Atheism is a lack of belief in gods, but many atheists hold many false beliefs.
ZombieHorde
Nov 2015
#187
I am astounded at how many atheists are throwing out "rules" for a belief system that they insist
MADem
Dec 2015
#255
I am astounded at how you don't know the difference between a rule and a definition
LostOne4Ever
Dec 2015
#366