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Re: Why isn't atheism classified as another religion?
by
CoinCube
on 22/04/2018, 20:20:56 UTC

You have to redefine what religion is because what you have does not make sense.  Flying horses, virgin conceptions, resurrection, spirits, 6000 year old Earth, creating woman from a rib bone, or man from dirt, talking snakes, etc., etc. All utter nonsense.

Keep re-writing it, eventually you'll get to the truth.  Life is not unique in this or other universes,  humans might not be the surviving lifeform in few thousands/millions of years.  Humans are not special animals, we are like all other monkeys, we are just smarter and can talk.
 

I define religion as anything an individual structures their life around either consciously or unconsciously.

I talked about this more here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1373864.msg35126317#msg35126317

I have seen arguments like your before af_newbie. They are often followed by statements like
Life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value. There is no inherent morality, accepted moral values are abstractly contrived. The universe and everything in it is entirely random. Ultimately there is no real point to life.

I am familiar with this "religion" this this type of faith if you will. I find it unpersuasive to say the least.

Many religious texts make a lot more sense then you are giving them credit for. I have found Jordan Peterson's lecture series on that topic to be particularily insightful as he goes through one of them line by line.

Biblical Series I: Introduction to the Idea of God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-wWBGo6a2w