atheism is not a religion
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Alchestbreach
| Voting Style: | Open | Point System: | 7 Point | ||
| Started: | 5/13/2014 | Category: | Religion | ||
| Updated: | 3 years ago | Status: | Post Voting Period | ||
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Pro Religion definition - the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. Your definition of religion is wrong. Con -according to this definition it is most commonly god but not always http://dictionary.reference.com... |
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Pro Alchestbreach forfeited this round.
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Vote Placed by Sagey 3 years ago
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Reasons for voting decision: I read the definition Con sourced and it did not show that Atheism is a religion, Pro's argument was correct, because Con's argument/source did not prove Pro wrong. Pro evidently did not read it properly and rationally. Thus incorrectly conceded defeat.
There are no "a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe," in Atheism, no Set Of Beliefs exist, my ex gf is an Atheist, yet she believes in the afterlife and is a psychic. Pro did not understand the true scope of his statement, a disbelief is not a Belief.
These were Animistic beliefs, which had no God only animal spirits, thus atheistic.
They had spirits without God.
Definite belief in a Deity didn't appear to around 20,000 years ago, and Atheism has always existed, but they never found any evidence for Atheism, only when they find no evidence for religion, then atheism is automatically assumed.
Just as my Psychic ex-gf believes in spiritual beings without any God, and she is also an Atheist.
She even refers to herself as an Atheist.
Yet she believes she talks to dead people.
I can do cold readings as good as she can, and I learned that from Ray Hyman's course on Critical Thinking.
Then A-Spidemanism will be a Religion.
Because, technically, it is so very similar.
Atheism exists without any religious beliefs and in people who have no idea of what a God is.
Thus if I gave the Bible translated into their native language, to a New Guinea native who follow an Animistic belief system, without any God, and they would view the Bible in much the same way as we view a novel written about Gandalf, in The Hobbit.
Thus they would often see the Bible God as a fictitious story character like Gandalf and thus it would be the same as an Anti-Gandalfian.
Thus they are Atheists.
They would think of the Bible God as we think of Gandalf, a fictional character.
It is indeed the same.
I've studied much Anthropology and Ancient History.
Including the History of Religious belief.
I know very well that Atheism, which has existed as long as religion is nothing like a Religious belief.
Anthropologists can spot religious beliefs by patterns of behavior.
Such as burial of the dead with implements for the afterlife.
Villages and large buildings of worship, arranged in a particular fashion, such as facing North.
Implements and artifacts with significant, representative figures which are consistent within the village, culture.
There are no such artifacts nor significant practices for Atheism.
Thus Anthropologists don't find any evidence for no-religion, or Atheism.
So, that definition is?
That's the size of their Belief and Doctrines.