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Atheist Clubs Spring Up In High Schools Across The Country With Help From The Secular Student Alliance
With help from the Secular Student Alliance -- a national organization of more than 300 college-based clubs for freethinking students -- high school atheists clubs are springing up across the country, the Religion News Service reports.
Like not collecting stamps is a hobbie?
Originally posted by BenReclused
reply to post by MagnumOpus
It sounds like atheism is becoming a religion to me. Oh well... I reckon I'm not surprised.
See ya,
Milt
Like not collecting stamps is a hobbie?
Originally posted by jiggerj
reply to post by MagnumOpus
How does an atheist club work?
Student 1: Can we hear the minutes of the last meeting?
Student2 opens notebook: The last meeting it was decided there was no god.
Next week.
Student 1: Can we hear the minutes of the last meeting?
Student2 opens notebook: The last meeting it was decided there was no god.
lol
en.wikipedia.org...
Because of its absence of a creator god, Buddhism is commonly described as nontheistic
Epicurus is credited with first expounding the problem of evil. David Hume in his Dialogues concerning Natural Religion (1779) cited Epicurus in stating the argument as a series of questions:[62] "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
Which means one thing only: "Lack of Belief in a God/Deity"
In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.
The "Love" generation sure hasn't done us any good...
Originally posted by BenReclused
reply to post by Annee
Which means one thing only: "Lack of Belief in a God/Deity"
I disagree:
Considering the existence of God has never been proven to be false, atheism is the BELIEF that God does not exist.
It is suggested by many people that atheism is a religion. Before we can examine why atheism is sometimes defined as a belief, it is important to understand who defines it as such. Rarely, if ever, will you find another atheist, agnostic, freethinker, humanist, secularist, etc., putting the definition of religion in the context of atheism. Almost without exception, it is the religious who do so. The reason is simple. The religious are are so caught up in their own beliefs that imagining another person without having any religious beliefs is largely incomprehensible. Those who claim that atheism is a religion do not only lack a clear understanding of what atheism is, they also tend to use religious terms to describe atheism. There exists only one definition of atheism, and that is simply the lack of a belief in a deity. There is a philosophical aspect to atheism, but it is not part of the definition, but an extension of the individual. Atheism, in of itself, cannot be described as religious because it takes mental gymnastics to attach the narrative, experiential, social, ethical, doctrinal, ritual and material aspects of religion to atheism because it is not a structured system with defined rules. It has no uniform beliefs and is not a means of understanding our existence. atheists.org...
What Is Atheism?
NOTE: Please do not confuse the definition of atheism with the philosophy of atheism. A lot of atheists do not like the idea of atheism only being a “lack of belief in gods,” but that is because they are placing the philosophy of atheism onto the definition of atheism. The two are different. If the definition of atheism qualified as the philosophy then we must accept babies in our numbers, which is obviously ridiculous. The philosophy of atheism ranges from one person to another, which is why I do not address it in this article. My concern is the definition of the word. I would encourage you to leave a comment on what you think the philosophy of atheism is!
What is atheism?
“What is atheism” is usually the one question never asked of atheists. Most people do not ask this question because they already have their own ideas about what atheism is and what atheists are. Where these ideas originate vary from their minister to their social circle to myths encouraged by certain media outlets. [reality]
Theists usually define atheism incorrectly as a belief system. The ulterior motive behind this incorrect definition is that if atheism is a belief system, then theists can refer to atheism as a religion. atheists.org...