Atheists & Agnostics

bvf

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35. Excuse me,

Sat Nov 28, 2015, 06:26 PM

Nov 2015

but IMO religion is the very absence of any attempt to explain the unknown. Its continued survival depends wholly on people willing to wallow in ignorance.

"We don't know" is just a lame answer to a ridiculous question.

The day some imaginary being manifests itself with an explanation for the weirder puzzles of physics like entanglement, or a proof of the ABC Conjecture in mathematics, is the day I'll give the question some consideration.

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People who claim atheism is a religion are: [View all] beam me up scottie Nov 2015 OP

Where's the option bvf Nov 2015 #1

You could choose other. beam me up scottie Nov 2015 #2

Actually, I went with trolls. bvf Nov 2015 #3

Oh, right! Our friend who loves to lurk and alert on everything. beam me up scottie Nov 2015 #4

Mooning initiated, Captain... onager Nov 2015 #19

! beam me up scottie Nov 2015 #20

We need polls skepticscott Nov 2015 #5

Good point! beam me up scottie Nov 2015 #6

A religion is the attempt to explain the unknown. "We don't know," is such an attempt. Hoppy Nov 2015 #7

Atheism is defined as the absence or rejection of belief in gods. beam me up scottie Nov 2015 #8

THAT'S an attempt? Gee, you're easily satisfied. SwissTony Nov 2015 #21

Excuse me, bvf Nov 2015 #35

"We don't know" is not an attempt to explain the unknown. nt LostOne4Ever Nov 2015 #39

Hmm, and my hobby is awoke_in_2003 Dec 2015 #52

I sincerely believe Atheism is a religion. Yorktown Nov 2015 #9

That's Ms. Atheist to you! beam me up scottie Nov 2015 #11

My apologies, Ms. Atheist. Yorktown Nov 2015 #13

I prefer Hell, I hear the parties are to die for. beam me up scottie Nov 2015 #14

Nice marmot. opiate69 Dec 2015 #48

Ach! Zomevone kaught on my leettle tjoke, ich sehe! Eindrucksvoll! Yorktown Dec 2015 #49

Nihilists! Fuck me. opiate69 Dec 2015 #50

Anyway, now you know why I don't believe in Jesus Yorktown Dec 2015 #51

I went with "ignorant", but "trolling" is a good part of it too. Silent3 Nov 2015 #10

EXACTLY! beam me up scottie Nov 2015 #12

It's an amusing hypocrisy the way so many theists try to use calling atheism a religion as a jab. AlbertCat Nov 2015 #25

Trolling, absolutely. MindPilot Nov 2015 #15

What you said, all of it. beam me up scottie Nov 2015 #16

I don't understand these "churchy" meetings, either. SwissTony Nov 2015 #22

Technically that makes you an agnostic atheist. beam me up scottie Nov 2015 #28

Yep. SwissTony Nov 2015 #33

"Horny Dobbin" beam me up scottie Nov 2015 #34

What? You mean it's NOT a religion? Binkie The Clown Nov 2015 #17

Shocking, eh? beam me up scottie Nov 2015 #18

Sorry bmus, you missed out "Incredibly Stupid" and "Ray Comfort", mr blur Nov 2015 #23

Oops! My bad! beam me up scottie Nov 2015 #29

A little from column A and a little from column B, deucemagnet Nov 2015 #24

True, but I can't always stop myself. beam me up scottie Nov 2015 #30

I chose "trolling us" Curmudgeoness Nov 2015 #26

Goats and trolls...sound like a video game. beam me up scottie Nov 2015 #31

Well, you might remember that there is already a fairy tale about them. Curmudgeoness Nov 2015 #37

I love that one! beam me up scottie Nov 2015 #38

...jealous of how easy it is to attack religion. Iggo Nov 2015 #27

Ha! Good one! beam me up scottie Nov 2015 #32

+1,000 n/t bvf Nov 2015 #36

I think that for the vast majority of people it is simple ignorance LostOne4Ever Nov 2015 #40

This. beam me up scottie Nov 2015 #42

Willfully ignorant... rexcat Nov 2015 #41

Yep. beam me up scottie Nov 2015 #43

Sexually repressed. lindysalsagal Dec 2015 #44

Oooooooooooo, that's a good one! beam me up scottie Dec 2015 #45

ignorant and trolling can be combined as clueless olddots Dec 2015 #46

They are fundamentalist thinkers. beam me up scottie Dec 2015 #53

I love how none of them grasp the irony... trotsky Dec 2015 #47

Right? beam me up scottie Dec 2015 #54

Not all who do it intend any insult Major Nikon Dec 2015 #55