Belief in the lack of existence of God (i.e., atheism) is a religious belief. Belief in the existence of God (theism) is also a religious belief. Lack of belief in either the existence or nonexistence of God (agnosticism) is not religious. And none of these has any connection to faith, which is completely independent of belief.
No.
I have no belief in a god or gods or higher power, you know nothing else about me…now describe me in the simplest and most accurate term you can.
There is only really one word that fits the bill.
Is not collecting stamps a form of stamp collecting?
Are we all secretely stamp collectors and just afraid to admit it?
The definition of “religous belief” is one that pertains to actually believing in religion -
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Religious belief
Religious belief is the belief in the reality of the mythological, supernatural, or spiritual aspects of a religion. Religious belief is distinct from religious practice or religious behaviours with some believers not practicing religion and some practitioners not believing religion.
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religious belief - a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; “he lost his faith but not his morality”
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note belief in - not lack of belief or “not believing” but belief IN.
So now we can have “true” Atheists?
Moved MPSIMS --> GD.
A non-profit non-prophet?
And some non-stamp collectors don’t collect stamps in such a way that they can be considered stamp collectors.
Even if atheism is not a religion, it may make sense to TREAT it as if it were a religion, legally, in some instances.
It depends on what kind of stamps you don’t collect. You have to specialize. For example, I don’t collect any stamps, but I especially don’t collect any stamps with Olympic themes. Some people don’t collect commemorative stamps, or foreign stamps, or whatever.
We make a point to not get together periodically so as not to show others the stamps we didn’t find and not acquire.
Indeed. Just as baldness gets treated as a hairstyle, since humans overwhelmingly have hair and get classified by hair, and nudity gets classified as a sartorial choice, since humans overwhelmingly wear clothes and are classified by their clothing choices, it makes sense to, for some purposes, consider atheism a religious stance (that is, a stance pertaining to religion).
Stamp collecting is a poor analogy, since humans don’t overwhelmingly collect stamps.
I disagree, unless you specific exactly in which aspects you which to treat it as a religion, otherwise it will automatically open up the “See! Atheism IS a religion!” nonsense that we are already starting to see in this thread.
What generally recognized definition of “religion” are you using, and what certain atheists qualify as religious under that definition?
I routinely collect stamps for usage - I wouldn’t call it collecting so much as purchasing for re-use as required by the postal service.
So, while I do believe there are stamps to collect - my belief in stamps as a collectible object that I wish to pursue , is an entirely different question.
So do we get our own Holy Land now? Where would it be? I’m in Red State Georgia, so I’m sure it’s going to be nowhere near me.
Which makes the non-st*mp collectors orthodox. Hosea.
I believe Walmart is considered atheist holy land, cause if there was a god…
Isn’t (or wasn’t) a tomato defined as a fruit for legal purposes? Legality and reality occasionally have at best a nodding acquaintance.
No promises.
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If a home can be haunted as a matter of law, I don’t see why atheism can’t legally be considered a religion.
What an absurd analogy.