I've been asking many people this question, and theyre answers have varied greatly. Yes, Atheism is the belief of no higher power, but is that really a [i]lack of religion, or is it a religion? 1. This depends on peoples beliefs or what constitutes as a religion. 2. Is a lack of religion, a religion?
So you're going to go ahead and generalize every single person? You can't "Classify" things like that. My school has rules that make people behave the same way. Is that a religion? No. No person behaves exactly the same way. You can't say that Muslims are all extremists, despite fox news repeated attempts, you can't say all Christians behave the same way.
No you can't. But you have to draw the line somewhere, and the definition of religion is pretty universally valid. The same cannot be said for your afore mentioned definition of atheism.
If you want to say this is a victory or whatever your going for, fine by me. I'm getting nothing out of this at this point, since we're just debating technicalities and it seems that we're not going into the issue for any other reason then to deny each others claims.
I'm not trying to claim victory, it just seemed to me that your claim of atheism being a way of life was unfounded. Also, kindly point out where you
accepted that Atheism isn't a religion
? Aside from your above post of course. I can't find it on this page.
Still, reading over the posts I guess it'd make sense for it not to be an official religion. To me it is a religion, as its a way of life, but for definition of it I'd say its not seeing how the definition of it is absence of religion...
Perhaps this is not clear, as I did state that its a religion to me, but we've been arguing technicalities about if its an official religion or not, which I state here. At first it was about the "way of life" comment, but its gotten into the official "is Atheism religion" since then, which I say no to.
Except for 6, I agree. 1's debatable, but it does say a set of beliefs, which atheism doesn't really have
Again, not perfectly clear, but I did say I agreed that it wasn't. 6 was a problem for me because it could be taken a different way by different people as some people are more dedicated to religion than others.
If that wasn't enough though, I'll just say it. Atheism isn't a religion
