<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:51 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Keith. I think atheism is, as you say, "a lack of religion rather<br>
than a religion" in non-militant atheists. But in those militant<br>
atheists who passionately want to convert others, and even more so in<br>
those militant atheists who discriminate against believers in academy,<br>
culture, media etc., atheism becomes a religion, and of the worst<br>
kind.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>### Militant atheism might fill up the god-shaped hole some people have in their minds, thus taking the place of religion as a focus of social and organized activity, but it still is not a religion. Same with communism, environmentalism or social justice - they are mental constructs that organize the activity of many people, just like religions, but although they may replace religion in their minds, they are not religions themselves.</div><div><br></div><div>RafalĀ </div></div></div>