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Old 05-18-2004, 03:02 PM   #11
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Just as a workers' union promoting their ideology is a religion.

Just as attendees at a Republican Party Convention promoting their ideology is a religion.




It's "The World According to usartist", TollHouse. White is black, black is polka-dotted yellow...what's not to understand?
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And a group of atheists promoting a common ideology is a religion.

Just as a group of theist promoting their ideology is a religion
By this logic, democratics, republicans, and environmentalists also qualify as religions. At least they HAVE a common ideology, atheists don't! All we have in common is a lack of belief in god!
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It's difficult to make the argument that there are atheists in foxholes, if they are not distinguished as such.
Not difficult at all, really. Find someone in a foxhole and ask him if he lacks belief in god. If he says yes, then he is an atheist in a foxhole. A similar process can be used to find republicans and environmentalists in foxholes. Is this concept really so difficult to grasp?
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So you admit you have completely redefined the word 'religion' as something that it is not? Why call it religion then?
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Old 05-19-2004, 06:43 PM   #15
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So you admit you have completely redefined the word 'religion' as something that it is not? Why call it religion then?
If you missed the previous usartist threads, he also considers chess clubs, Home & Garden magazine, and wearing a seat belt to be religions, and thinks that everyone should adopt this definition, although why we need to do so is still unclear to me. He also says that atheists need to form organized religions, although exactly why we need to do this is also still unclear to me.
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If you missed the previous usartist threads, he also considers chess clubs, Home & Garden magazine, and wearing a seat belt to be religions...
Uh...huh.

I'm going to smile and back out of this thread now.
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