Do you consider atheism a religion? [Spirituality & Religion]
I was looking at this graph, and I was surprised to see atheism listed on the side. This graph represents the "educational attainment of U.S. religious groups." This post isn't about that specifically, although you're more than welcome to address it if you so wish. It is, however, an example of how atheism is often considered a religion. What are your thoughts?
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@TheWildEcho Well, I am personally not just atheist but anti-theist and I find it hard to take anyone seriously that as an adult still believes in fairy-tales and magic.
That doesn't mean that I 'worship' atheism. It just means I stand my ground and will argue and contradict when I see people spreading spurious information.
@Quizzical you mean like the universe "big banging" from literally nothing, creating everything, and mysteriously forming into these neat little spheres all by themselves for no reason? 🤔
@wildbill83 All humans, regardless of religion or lack thereof, faces the same following problem: how did it all start, and what came before that? What came before the Big Bang, what caused it, or where did God come from?
They don't believe in God because he can't be proven, so they believe in something that can't be proven because anything that isn't proven is fictitious...🤔
Believers only require faith to believe, Non-Believers need facts that don't exist...
@wildbill83 The forming of 'neat little spheres' is the accretion of matter which is a result of gravity acting upon matter ejected from stars, and planets are actually oblate spheroids rather than neat little spheres, they bulge around the equator, precisely because of the gravitation that formed them.
As for the big bang, we can still see the echo of it in background radiation.
Regarding what triggered the big bang, well, we don't know, nor do scientists claim to know, but of all the reasons for it probably the LEAST likely is a magical invisible man living in the sky...
@wildbill83 Because you're unfamiliar with the facts doesn't mean they don't exist. Also, and this is just my opinion, believing by faith alone is an admission that there are no facts, and it's completely irrational.
Yes but believers don’t believe by faith alone. You are falling into the Richard Dawkins total error that faith is uninformed faith. Many atheists fall into that dumb way of thinking@ThumbsUp
