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In reply to the discussion: When you get right down to it, "Atheist" is a stupid word. [View all]AlexSFCA
(6,270 posts)34. because religion is likely older than science
superman is intentionally created for entertainment. Religion was created by people to control population. The more advances we make as humans, the less religious society will become because it is fundamentally incompatible with science. Some folks on this forum eager to provide China as an example of atheist country conveniently forgetting that it is a communist country which in itself can be easily classified as religion (dear leader). It was the same in Soviet Union, officially atheist but de facto deeply religious (belief in bright future no matter what, supremacy of communism and its dear leaders, brainwashing through propaganda). Religion in itself is propaganda and these days operate more like a business in civilized world.
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When you get right down to it, "Atheist" is a stupid word. [View all]
Pope George Ringo II
Nov 2018
OP
You yourself have said many times that your beliefs are exempted from rational analysis...
trotsky
Nov 2018
#62
It simply means "without belief in a deity or deities"; it doesn't imply the reasoning behind it.
LongtimeAZDem
Nov 2018
#7
Because religious belief is an issue of greater import in a society where the predominant religious
LongtimeAZDem
Nov 2018
#10
Teenagers are even more likely to get kicked out of the house for using drugs.
Pope George Ringo II
Nov 2018
#11
And what do we call people from that era who didn't believe in Funkraum, God of Radio?
Pope George Ringo II
Nov 2018
#13
It's not about age. We don't have a word for people who don't believe in faeries.
Pope George Ringo II
Nov 2018
#35
There's at least one poster here who spectacularly fails to grasp what it means.
Pope George Ringo II
Nov 2018
#37
It's still very much an outlier. Nothing else gets this treatment besides sky wizards.
Pope George Ringo II
Nov 2018
#45
I won't argue with somebody's right to define themselves as they see fit.
Pope George Ringo II
Nov 2018
#47
I had actually been thinking of the Philosopher's Stone as a transmuter
Pope George Ringo II
Nov 2018
#51
Not so stupid if one can look at the word "atheist" with a slight spelling and syllabic
cornball 24
Nov 2018
#67