Anyone else think "Atheism" is a STUPID religion?

Question

Think about it... A-Theist. That means without God! How can you be religious without God? You can't call atheism a religion because you don't believe in religion, fools!

You don't even believe in God, or an afterlife, or anything supernatural like that! It's silly! How can it be a proper religion if you don't have any of that?!

You atheists might as well NOT HAVE any religion.

The only book you have is The God Delusion, and that isn't a proper religious book, because the bible is thousands of years old, and that makes it a proper religious book. Richard Dawkins wasn't inspired by God to write it, heck, he doesn't even believe in God, so how could it be religious ???

Why don't you guys get a real religion?
Become Christians, which is a real religion.

One final word to all our atheist friends, the christian god is a loving god, join our religion, as your religion has no god, which is silly.

IT DOESN'T EVEN RESEMBLE A RELIGION!
It's like u people are ANTI RELIGION

Answer 1

You sure do go a long way around the satire to get to the satire.

Answer 2

A-thiest means that you don't believe in a theistic God. You don't believe in a god that thinks independantly and that has a specific plan for you. Also, there is a big difference between God and religion. God, if he exists, is a supreme creator who (according to theists) is active in our lives and (according to those who are less inclined to think theisticly) is outside of space and time and is an energy that creates and sustains all existance. In short, he is not human. Religions, on the other hand, are human institutions. Religions are created by humans to try to explain and codify how God works, and how we should respond to His presence here among us. Religions are not gods, and gods are not religions. Religions deserve respect, they are a legitimate response to the absurdity of the universe. Get your terms sorted out more thoroughly if you want a serious discussion. There are serious people on both sides of the issue. If you truly engage the questions, (LIVE the questions, Rilke said) and you use your intellectual abilities to their fullest potential, and you follow your heart as well, you are not being "silly," as you put it.
"The only book you have is The God Delusion" proves that you are just beginning to think about these things. Actually, my young padewan, there are THOUSANDS of books supporting atheism, many of them much better than the Dawkins book. Try Ecclesiastes, for starters, or the Book of Job.

Answer 3

Trusting in God is not a religion. Religion is merely what man put together.Religion has caused many of wars and confusion among people. Religion is the practice of certain beliefs, rituals and regulations that mostly are not bibilical doctrine.

Christianity is having a close relationship with God not a so called Bible thumping,idol worshiping religion. You do not go to heaven because you are of a certain religion.

If your really on God's side ...I would hardly think that He approves of your harshness toward them.

Lighten up please..your not doing God's work here.

Answer 4

It is anti religion...they live in the darkness terrified of the light. They stay around here all hours of the day and night like vultures waiting and waiting for anyone to say anything about God so they can jump all over them and tear them apart. they are vile creatures who resemble demons in the flesh.

They don't let any serious questions get an actual serious answer. A person with an actual problem can't even come here for answers because they are bombarded by the devils advocates.

They could just join a chat room so they could bicker it out there, but instead they stand right in the way of people finding real answers. Obviously I can't stand these "people" and I use that term loosely, but then again, that's what they try to do, they try to make every one hate them as much as they hate themselves.

Answer 5

I am at a loss for words, almost, on how to reply to this little diatribe of yours. Is it written with a sense of sarcasm, in essence parodying the rhetoric of Christians who equate atheism with a religion, or is it a serious attack on the nature of atheism? I will address it as the latter, and if I misconstrue your sarcasm for an intended attack on atheism, I ask for forgiveness in advance.

Now let me address the question at hand. No atheist that I have ever heard of has ever claimed that atheism is a religion. In fact it is merely a term that describes that a person lacks belief in the existence of a deity. Hence, it is not a complete worldview, since a complete worldview doesn’t only enumerate what it lacks, but also makes positive assertions on the nature of the world.

Secondly, the book by Richard Dawkins, “The God Delusion”, though a popular and cogent analysis of our religious malaise, isn’t by any means the only book available to atheists. Other books support the views of atheists such as Sam Harris’s “The End of Faith” and “A Letter To a Christian Nation”, Christopher Hitchens’s “Why God Isn’t Great”, George H. Smith’s “Atheism: The Case Against God”, Michael Martin’s “Atheism: A Philosophical Justification”, and a whole host of other books.

It just happens to be that Richard Dawkins’ book is currently the most popular book expounding the secular position against religion. It certainly isn’t the only book on the subject or the best one available to atheists.

Thirdly, the antiquity of the Bible is no testament to its truth. The tremendous age of a text doesn’t automatically endow it with a sense of truth or sanctity. If anything the greater the age of an idea or a book, the more wrong it is. The idea that the world is flat is a much older notion, than the idea that the world is round. The later, younger idea is the correct one. Is slavery a better or truer idea than freedom and equality for all people, because slavery is a much older idea? Again the new concepts are almost invariably better both from a moral perspective, and from a standpoint of factual correctness than older concepts. The Hindu Vedas, are much older than the Bible. Does that make it truer? As a Christian I am sure you would beg to differ.

You might get the perception that atheists claim some sort of right to the title of being religious, because Dawkins frequently invokes religious imagery, and describes his feeling of religious sentiments. Many other atheists, like Sam Harris, also don’t preclude the feelings of spirituality for atheists. You would do yourself quite a service if you read Dawkins’s work and Sam Harris’s work a little more critically.

Dawkins use of religious euphoria is restricted to the elation and awe he feels about the complexity of the universe, and how much humans have comprehended about it, and how much further we have to go. Harris expands on this theme further by showing how people can have spiritual experiences, by the use of contemplative or meditative methods of eastern mystics.

Remember, most people would not deny that Buddhists and Taoists live spiritual lives, but at the core of Buddhism and Taoism, in their most pristine and unadulterated forms, there is no reference to God.

It should also be noted that the existence of an after life is not necessarily contingent on the existence of God. Your narrow upbringing might predispose you to drawing this relationship, but a disembodied eternal existence does not require the existence of a disembodied eternal creator. Just as you theists state that God just exists without asking the question of how he could exist without a cause, and this fact is inexplicable because it is beyond our comprehension, an atheist can at least entertain the notion that an eternal existence devoid of material substance is possible, and in like manner this could be an inexplicable phenomenon. We probably could not prove it, but as centuries have attested, Christians have failed to prove the existence of their God.

The important thing is that our entertaining the idea of a life beyond physical existence does not lead us to concoct a whole host of absurd ideas, and impose them on other people. Your concept of God does have very earthly consequences, and many of those consequences are counterproductive.

Answer 6

Christopher Hawkins is also an atheist, and his book "God is Not Great" points out a great many of the nasty things about the Hebraic religions. He doesn't have much to say about many of the others, and shows his ignorance there, but I agree with him that religion poisons everything. Even atheism is a religion inasmuch as it is a belief system.
We witches don't bother with beliefs, we just get on with dealing with what we know works.

Answer 7

Lol.

Atheism is not a religion. And I don't know of any atheist who claims that it is.

The God Delusion is a book about science and religion. It is not an infallible text. People do not claim that it is divinely inspired or not open to debate.

You will still need to prove that Yahweh exists more than Zeus and Krishna if you want to convince an atheist, don't you?

Answer 8

Religion is different from person to person and culture to culture. Atheists do not believe in "god" as you know it but do believe things were created in other ways. A religion can be whatever you make it out to be. But as a Christian aren't you taught to respect other's beliefs and not persecute people for them? So technically you aren't following your religion. If "god" is all loving anyways then won't he reward all people in heaven?

Answer 9

Respectfully sir you are an idiot. We don't have a religion because atheism is not a religion.

In you're final comment you have us, "It's like u people are ANTI RELIGION" You've got us we are anti religion.

I certainly hope this was a joke, or written by an 8 year old.

Answer 10

I'm not an atheist, but a christian. And it makes me sad to see people like you try to force others into joining their religion...just leave people alone. If they want to worship, they will. If they don't, it's no one's business but theirs. They are not 'anti' religion. It is just what they believe in.

Answer 11

It isn't a religion you idiot.

Pretty much all atheists have read the Bible - I've never read the God Delusion. You have some pretty messed up ideas about atheism and atheists. I hope your God punishes you for your ignorance and narrowmindedness.