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#853768
Jacob
Except that they aren't.
1/16/2009 7:12:13 AM
#853774
DevilsChaplain
"There’s a HUGE difference between
being RELIGIOUS and believing in God & The Word."
No, no there's not...And besides, I thought Bird was the Word.....
1/16/2009 7:15:05 AM
#853776
HoJuSimpson
Which god and its word? Idiot.
But ok, we can start taxing churches and cut out the religious holidays. Oh, didn't think so.
If us atheists are religious, I want a big church with free food and strippers and my own holidays, plz :D!
1/16/2009 7:17:26 AM
#853781
DarkfireTaimatsu
Right. The same way that...
...water is becoming drier over time.
...grass is becoming redder over time.
...fire is becoming colder over time.
...magic is becoming realer over time.
...dead people are becoming livelier over time.
...China is becoming Frencher over time.
...quotes on this site are becoming saner over time.
1/16/2009 7:20:40 AM
#853791
IndelibleSorrow
Religious:
1:
relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity <a religious person> <religious attitudes>2: of, relating to, or devoted to religious beliefs or observances <joined a religious order>3 a: scrupulously and conscientiously faithful b: fervent , zealous
— re·li·gious·ly adverb
— re·li·gious·ness noun
Atheism:
1archaic : ungodliness , wickedness
2a:
a disbelief in the existence of deity
b: the doctrine that there is no deity
Case closed.
1/16/2009 7:49:34 AM
#853796
The Jamo
Do you mind mentioning what that difference actually is?
1/16/2009 8:10:53 AM
#853800
Eden
Considering the fact that there are much more religions than fundamentalist bible believing christianity he is right.
You can be religious without believing in God & the word.
Belief in God & The Word is, hoewver a subset of being religious.
And if I remember correctly buddhism, for example, can partly be called an atheist religion, so there are also religious atheists.
Of course MikeA fails when he tries to claim that all atheists are religious (maybe even hinting at his belief that atheism is a religion ;)) ;)
1/16/2009 8:19:28 AM
#853819
John-in_Oz
And yet I don't see any difference at all.
1/16/2009 8:55:26 AM
#853820
Paler_Face
There’s a HUGE difference between
being RELIGIOUS and believing in God & The Word.
Just as there is a HUUUUGE difference between shit and fecal matter.
1/16/2009 8:55:36 AM
#853828
aaa
Yawn.
1/16/2009 9:05:42 AM
#853833
Xotan
This is off the wall. HUmpty Dumty language if ever such existed!
1/16/2009 9:11:40 AM
#853877
E. A. Poe
Quoth the Raven, "While forlornly slumped upon her egg, her beak upon her breast, the largely sated Dumb-Dumb bird who'd only recently fed, heard, on the wing, aloft, Archibald Collins the Magpie. 'Have you seen Irene Turner-Cartwright, that malicious Daw of ill repute', he said as he flew into her view. 'No. What day is it?', the (cont. page 94)
1/16/2009 10:13:05 AM
#853882
David B.
@IndelibleSorrow:
"Religious:
1: relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity"
Even your own definition doesn't mandate belief in a deity, so doesn't exclude atheists from being religious. In fact nothing excludes atheists from being religious, hence there are Buddhist atheists and even Christian atheists.
Atheism isn't a religion in itself, but it doesn't mean you can't have one.
1/16/2009 10:17:40 AM
#853886
a mind far far away
How in the hell does that work? I can't even wrap my mind around something this fucking insane.
1/16/2009 10:24:41 AM
#853922
anevilmeme
WTF is this, a conversation between Dumb & Dumber?
1/16/2009 11:13:19 AM
#853968
Mister Spak
Being RELIGIOUS is other peoples fairy tales, while believeing in God & Word is YOUR fairy tale.
1/16/2009 12:44:04 PM
#853976
Percy Q. Shun
Umm, no.
1/16/2009 12:51:34 PM
#853989
Katsuro
David B:
"hence there are Buddhist atheists and even Christian atheists"
I'm sorry but I fail to see how one can be atheist and Christian. Surely, by default, a Christian must beleive in the existence of god and that Jesus was devine? Atheists do not beleive in gods, so how can you be both?
1/16/2009 1:13:12 PM
#854006
Illuminatalie
Atheists are becoming more religious over time.
Your lies are becoming more obvious over time.
1/16/2009 1:31:01 PM
#854007
Dr. Gus
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, no.
1/16/2009 1:33:04 PM
#854063
Jackie
Never!!!!
1/16/2009 2:29:57 PM
#854066
Cirno
Thank you, DevilsChaplain. Now I have that song stuck in my head.
1/16/2009 2:32:09 PM
#854072
Damen
Right, I know this, it's the argument of Christianity Is Not A Religion®©™
David B.:
@IndelibleSorrow:
"Religious:
1: relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity"
Even your own definition doesn't mandate belief in a deity, so doesn't exclude atheists from being religious. In fact nothing excludes atheists from being religious, hence there are Buddhist atheists and even Christian atheists.
Atheism isn't a religion in itself, but it doesn't mean you can't have one.
I'm sure you've seen this before, but:
1/16/2009 2:35:39 PM
#854080
freako104
Ok so what's the difference? And how are atheists becoming more religious?
1/16/2009 2:44:00 PM
#854097
David B.
@Katsuro:
"I'm sorry but I fail to see how one can be atheist and Christian."
Treat Jesus as a wholly mortal, but transcendent, teacher, like Buddha.
See
Altizer's book for more information. Or just read
his credo.
Don't worry if it doesn't make sense, it
is a religion after all. ;-)
1/16/2009 2:54:31 PM
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