[ExI] Atheism

[William Flynn Wallace]

These PERSONS didn't commit their atrocities *in the name of* atheism. As I
said, they committed them for other reasons, usually to do with gaining and
holding on to power over other people.
. Atheism is not a belief system. Surely you understand that   Ben Zaiboc

 Think of a belief system as like totems.  If you are a member of a tribe
which has a totem, you are a member of a group that has a large number of
beliefs and rites and other actions associated with that totem.  The same
is true if you are both Baptists, Roman Catholics, Jews, and so on.

Now think of meeting some stranger with whom you are sharing a table at
Starbucks.  You strike up a conversation and find that both of you are
atheists.  What other points of similarity are there?  Perhaps none at
all.  There are liberal and conservative atheists, authoritarians and
libertarians, and so on.

If in fact you have no similarity with that other person than that you are
both atheists (and maybe for very different reasons), then I say that
atheism is not a belief system.

bill w

On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 5:03 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 1:23 AM, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> *Atheism IS a belief system*
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> So is the multiplication table.
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>> *when it becomes militant and intolerant.*
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> If I say believers are imbeciles that is not being intolerant, I'm just
> expressing my opinion and the believer is perfectly free to say the same
> thing about me.
> Pelting somebody with words is not violen
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> , pelting somebody with rocks is; and so is burning somebody at the stake,
> a favorite pastime of the pious.
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>  John K Clark
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