Posted by anthonyberet on 12/14/06 01:19

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.

It is possible to not be an atheist one day, and be one the next, as
happened to me. This is conversion in the way that bricks can be
converted into a house.

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