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Old 10-07-2007, 08:29 PM   #1
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The definition of atheism should be a lack of belief in any higher power but the meaning got hijacked. Agnosticism is uncertainty. Anti-religious is to deny a certain god.

Most atheists are to religion as someone without a hobby is to stamp collecting. We don't say someone that is without a hobby denies the hobby of stamp collecting, that just sounds stupid, atheism should be the same. Unfortunately, the world is too Christian and Islam centric to change the meaning of atheism.
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Old 10-07-2007, 08:35 PM   #2
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Most atheists are to religion as someone without a hobby is to stamp collecting. We don't say someone that is without a hobby denies the hobby of stamp collecting, that just sounds stupid, atheism should be the same. Unfortunately, the world is too Christian and Islam centric to change the meaning of atheism.
What rot! Atheists believe there is not god, not that there is no religion. If aren't surre about the non-existence of a god, you're not an atheist. Your analogy sucks -the stamp collecting would be the religion the stamps would be the god.
Atheists would not believe that the stamps existed -no interest in the people who collect them.
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