"Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in message news:<c14kcg$cr7$0@pita.alt.net>...
> news:Xns94945697C81D3dickcrcomcastnet@216.196.97.136...
> > Uncle Davey wrote in talk.origins
> >
> > >> "Atheist religion" is an oxymoron, you moron.... much like Creation
> > >> "Science".
> > >>
> > >> EROS.
> > >
> > > Oh yeah?
> > >
> > > http://www.darc.org/connelly/religion1.html
> > >
> > > This definition of religion, which seems pretty thought through, would
> > > cover atheism as it occurs in some people's versions of it, that's for
> > > sure.
> >
> > Your version of it. Nobody elses. Please explain how atheism fits
> > that definition?
> >
>
> This definition is broadly in terms of religion being how we deal with and
> codify sacred and spiriual experience.
>
> Atheism is in denial about it, and that is a way of dealing with it, hence
> atheism is included.
Your logic defies belief, Unca Dave! Are you saying that if somebody
denies something, they are in fact "dealing" with that thing and are
therefore somehow embracing it?
Surely the only way any belief could be classed as a religion would be
if it embraced "sacred and spiri[t]ual experience"
Religion absolutely *requires* belief in a supernatural deity, atheism
absolutely rejects it. They are the antithesis of one another. Only a
deranged mind would think that religion and atheism could be similar
in any way.
Hmmmm... I rest my case!
EROS.
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fundamentalist minority, whose objections are not based on reasoning
but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles." -- James D.
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