Quote from: mprep on March 30, 2016, 04:33:50 PM

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Quote from: mprep on March 30, 2016, 04:13:30 PM

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P.S. The fact that you are actually pursuing a discussion with BADecker (@BADecker No offense, but you seem to be leaning towards the aforementioned "zealously religious fundamentalist nut" with quite a few of your statements and your generally "enlightened" tone) regarding religion already shows that you seem to be picking easier targets just so you could win somewhere

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Check #6 of the definition of "religion" at http://www.dictionary.com/browse/religion?s=t. Everyone is religious. Perhaps people in a coma are most religious, being adamantly stuck in the way they think.

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I prefer the Cambridge University Press' traditional (#1) definition of "religion":

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the belief in and worship of a god or gods, or any such system of belief and worship

Source: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/religion

I don't consider a set of beliefs that doesn't include some sort of belief in an entity (entities) that are responsible for the creation of the universal system (I'll repeat what I already mentioned: that being governed by natural laws such as gravity, the existence of light and various parameters that it follows when interacting with materials, the fact that materials are comprised of molecules, which are made up of atoms, which are made up of protons, neutrons and electrons, which are made up of..., etc.) we live in. That's why Atheism is not religion, but rejection of religion.

Atheism is a religion for this simple reason, if nothing else. Science and nature have proven that God exists. Atheism has not proven God does not exist. When atheism sets itself up against the facts in the light of having no facts to sustain itself, it is calling itself "God" in one way or another. Perhaps this would not be so if the point were not regarding God. This makes atheism a religion of non-religion, a self-contradictory religion.

Quote from: mprep on March 30, 2016, 04:33:50 PM

Let's keep it on-topic though.

P.S. BADecker, your "enlightened" tone is not going to get you anywhere: you won't prove anything to me nor to anyone else, that isn't already in agreement with you.

Okay. The only thing that I was trying to prove is, that I am not trying to prove anything. Sounds like I might have proven it to you.

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