Uh, no. - Zarquon

True. But Atheism is a religious belief, and so deserves to be included in the discussion of religion. Classifing atheism as "not a religion" deprives atheists of this right.

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Saturday, November 01 2003 @ 08:45 AM PST

Uh, no. - matt68000

Atheism, like theism is a faith based philosophy so I do lump it in with religion. Theistic religions require faith that a god exists even though they have no absolute proof it does exist. Atheism is simply the other extreme. An atheist has no absolute proof that a god doesn't exist but still asserts that there is no god. An atheist has faith that a god doesn't exist which is not an admission of the unknown. The proper term for someone who acknowledges that there is no absolute proof to support the existence of a god or the absence of a god is agnosticism.

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Wednesday, November 12 2003 @ 12:34 AM PST