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Posted by ~yobbo~ on 12/14/06 22:12
anthonyberet wrote:
> Brian Henderson wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 23:46:45 +0000, anthonyberet <nospam@me.invalid>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I have recently converted to atheism, which is why I stumbled
> > > upon them.
> >
> > It is impossible to "convert" to atheism since atheism is not only
> > not a religion, it is a rejection of religion. That's like saying
> > you joined nothing.
>
> You are correct that atheism is not a religion.
>
> A good line I saw on this theme today was 'atheism is a religion in
> the same way that bare feet is a pair of shoes'.
>
> However, a thing doesn't need to be a religion in order to be
> converted to.
However, it does have to have a set of rules or tenets.
> It is possible to not be an atheist one day, and be one the next, as
> happened to me.
God didn't give you that Ferrari?
> This is conversion in the way that bricks can be
> converted into a house.
No, it's 'putting bare feet on', to use your own analogy, a rather senseless
thing to say. (Let's try to stick with one analogy at a time huh? Becoming
an atheist has nothing to do with building anything*) It's not an act of
switching affiliation (such as changing shoes), it's the rejection of shoes.
Ponder the statement; "I believe in atheism". This is nonsensical, as
atheism, by definition, is the rejection of all religious belief. Therefore
it's not somethinmg that you convert to, rather you let go of your previous
beliefs. It is an act of rejection (of your previous beliefs) rather than
the embracing of something new.
--
Shaun. (Pagan extrordinaire)
*If anything, to use your bricks and house analogy, a religious person would
indeed use the bricks to construct something, such is the nature of the
beast, to create 'structure' out of chaos. An atheist would leave them as a
pile of bricks and consider them to be simply that, a random scattering of
bricks. (Or a neatly stacked pallet, whatever...)
Bastard faeries!!!!
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