Posted by Theophilus on 12/27/06 23:54

"drax" <drax1313@spamsandwichhotmail.com> wrote in message
news:4vfpmiF1bq11cU1@mid.individual.net...
>
> "Theophilus" <intrexATsasktelDOTnet> wrote in message
> news:12omdrt4gh3v25f@corp.supernews.com...
>> <snip>
>>
>>
>> >>>>> You asserted that Atheism is a religion. It isn't. Sort it out!
>> >>>> Yes, I made the assertion that atheism is a religion and then went
>> >>>> on
>> >>>> to say why.
>> >>> No you didn't. You just think you did.
>> >>
>> >> Demonstrate otherwise. This is just another assertion.
>> >>
>> > The burden of proof isn't on me, it is on you.
>> >
>> > As you are probably aware, it is sometimes difficult to prove a
>> > negative
>> > ;o)
>>
>> You've stated two negatives in this passage alone. "Atheism isn't a
>> religion" and "I (meaning me) didn't prove that it was". Unfortunately,
> you
>> can either deal with my original assertion that it is a religion, or you
> can
>> continue to waddle in circles saying "NOT! NOT! NOT!" Whatever makes you
>> feel worthwhile, I guess.
>>
>> Let me requote to you my assertion and the rationale:
>>
>> 1) Atheism IS a religion, the most hypocritical known.
>>
>> 2) Religion is the wilful self-delusion about higher power(s) being the
>> actual
>> arbiters of mankind and the universe.
>>
>
> Sorry, your own #2 rules out atheism as a religion. The whole higher
> power
> thing. BTW, higher than what?

Higher than the moral nothingness dictated by a material universe. Atheists
use morality as if it were real and absolute in some sense; they have no
empirical evidence that there is any basis to it.

An honest atheist would admit such and regard his own life as being "worth"
as much as any lump of coal or granite. This is the delusion that they live
under, the idea that they have some absolute worth, when their belief system
dictates that they have none.

[Back to original message]