There's no such thing as the lack of religion. Atheism and agnosticism would both still be religions (though they're not necessarily organized ones)...you can't just not have it.
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GAH! I hate this quote for too many reasons to list normally but I'll try.
(efrain)
*grins and high-fives efrain*
Game, set, match to efrain.
Uhm, no. Read your dictionary, for a start. I don't believe in god(s). That is absolutely it. I do not do atheist rituals to celebrate my non-belief. I do not do anything that has anything to do with the supernatural. I simply do not believe. That's not even an action.
"There's no such thing as the lack of religion. you can't just not have it. "
And yet, I have a complete lack of religion. Go figure.
So everybody is religious? Man is my family going to be confused, considering that they don't give a crap about religion in any way, shape, or form and have as close to zero religious beliefs as you can have in our culture.
And there you have it people. There are some people who cannot even conceive of an absence of religion. The limited thinking of people like this frightens me. How are we supposed to live in happy, productive democracies when there are freaks out there who literally can't imagine what it's like to hold a different set of beliefs to their own? These fuckers get to vote! 'You can't just not have it'... jesus, I'm choking on my own rage here.
There's no such thing as the lack of religion. Atheism and agnosticism would both still be religions (though they're not necessarily organized ones)...you can't just not have it.
Yes there is, no they aren't, and yes I can.
In a way this berk is right: there can't be a lack of something. That would be nothing. And there can't be nothing.
However, he's wrong that you can't just not have it. I, for example, don't just not have it. I think. If it were written in English. As far as I can tell.
fergus
...There's no such thing as the lack of religion. Atheism and agnosticism would both still be religions (though they're not necessarily organized ones)...you can't just not have it.
There's no such thing as the lack of religion.
There's nothing so arrogant as that statement.
Atheism and agnosticism would both still be religions
I consider myself an agnostic. I don't claim the existence of God nor do I denouce it either. I just don't know for sure and neither does anyone else. It's a matter of faith; belief without evidence. So how does agnosticism fit into a religious model?
you can't just not have it.
Yes you can. One can live their life without ever giving any thought to a supreme being or creator. Happens all the time.
Religion (from Wikipedia): "Religion is a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of life and the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a supernatural agency,[1] or human beings’ relation to that which they regard as holy, sacred, spiritual, or divine."
Your inability to imagine people to have other world-views than your own, is not proof that no such people exist.
"There's no such thing as the lack of religion. Atheism and agnosticism would both still be religions (though they're not necessarily organized ones)...you can't just not have it."
And you'll never attain Super Saiyan, SSJ6Gohan. After all, there's no such thing as Goku, Broly, Cell etc. Dragonball fanboyism could be considered a religion by you & your ilk (though they're not necessarily organised ones). You can't just have it.
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Speaking personally (as an anime enthusiast), "Dragonbollocks/Drag-On-Bore-ZZZZZzzzzzz.../Dragonbollocks GT" is only good for a meme or two. Ugly steroid-OD'd mutants screaming at each other for OVER 9000 episodes*? Give me "Ikkitousen" any day. Especially as it has Ryomou Shimei...:
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<3 :3 :9
*- Are they still on Namek? X3
You can not have it, and I do.
When are you losers ever going to understand that by its very definition atheism cannot be a religion?
Atheism is defined by what you don't believe, not by what you do believe. A religion, by definition, MUST have organization and standardized believes. If they want that and are an atheist, they can easily join one of the religions that allow atheists (like Buddhism). If they don't... well they don't have to do anything.
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