Do Athiests consider themselves a religion or not? I'm just wondering. I consider them a religion.
2007-06-04 15:19:43 · 18 answers · asked by Nijg 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No.
We don't worship anything.
We don't congregate on Sundays or any day of the week.
We don't pray.
We don't have a sacred text.
We don't even think of ourselves as "gods" - actually, Christians are the ones who think we have immoratal souls.
2007-06-04 15:28:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope, not a religion. As a group we have no meetings, no organization, no dogma, no common anything other than a belief that no God exists or that no God is worthy of worship.
It's been said before, but calling atheism a religion is like calling not collecting stamps a hobby.
2007-06-04 22:26:35 · answer #2 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i would say that atheism is not a religion, but some fundemantal atheists act religious,
there is a reason for this,
do a yahoo search on something called,
spiral dynamics
and then check it out,
the reality of it is, there are different ways people organize and behave,
so the religious are in these herd mentality groups, and there are atheists in similar herd mentality groups
break free from the herd is my advice
2007-06-04 22:49:03 · answer #3 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atheism is not a religion. I don't know where these people get the notion that you must have faith; nay, even MORE faith than a xian to be an atheist. I don't have faith that god does not exist. I don't hope that god doesn't exist.
God is a construct of the bronze-age people who didn't know where lightening, thunder, rain, wind, snow, light, dark, fire and other trivial things we can explain today came from.
2007-06-04 22:44:54 · answer #4 · answered by umwut? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nope, it's not a religion, it's the absence of religion. If you look up the definition of religion, you'll see that atheism in no way qualifies as one.
2007-06-05 00:43:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really. A belief system maybe. I tend to agree they are a religion.
My proofs are. They have spriitual or holy books (writings about Atheism and anti-religion). They have organizations (such as the one started by Dawkins and others). They have leaders (holy men). The actively attempt to convert (they are evangelistic).
2007-06-04 22:28:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Good question.
No, we simply don't believe in a supernatural god. To be a religion we would have to have rituals and other sorts of things that would tie us together as a group.
2007-06-04 22:23:44 · answer #7 · answered by Kathryn™ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Atheism is not a religion or any other type of institution. What gives you that notion?
Although there are religious atheists. There are Buddhists and Taoist atheists.
2007-06-04 22:23:50 · answer #8 · answered by Shawn B 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
religion is an organized system revolving around a single givin supernatural belief.
we are not religious.
however, the dictionary.com def.:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/religion
is much more ambiguous and might include atheism for some reason...
2007-06-04 22:22:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO they are thrill seekers of the modest forces of nature and jump to conclusions based on the principle they have no reasons for saying or doing anything in life but existing to make everyone life that much harder..
2007-06-04 22:30:48 · answer #10 · answered by done 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋