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"no religion, it usually means no atheism as well"

`mud

Just old
Premium Member
hey Paarsurrey ,
I've never seen you answer a question directly.
Soooo...it seems to be silly to attempt to have a meaningful conversation with you.
Soooo...I will stop, good will and good luck ..right, please
 

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
[3:20] Surely, the true religion with Allah is Islam (complete submission). And those who were given the Book did not disagree but after knowledge had come to them, out of mutual envy. And whoso denies the Signs of Allah, then surely, Allah is quick at reckoning.
The Holy Quran - Chapter: 3: Aal-e-`Imran



The verse says "with Allah", others are not under any compulsion to go by it. Same way I am not under any compulsion to believe otherwise. Right, please?

Regards
It seems to me that you should accept not a compulsion, but a responsibility that comes with your decision to lend prestige to the claims of the Qur'an.
 

paarsurrey

Veteran Member
What creed, culture, and history would dictate to atheists what we believe as a unit in relationship with how that belief helps us in life and finding purpose or so be?
"what we believe as a unit"
There is no unity in the Atheism people, they are all in singles and are expected to be passive, not active in their assertions, not expected to defend it or debate their stance or be vocal, as that would be against the Atheism . Right, please?
Regards
 
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LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
"Atheism is a very passive, unremarkable stance."

It is , I understand, one's stance and I realize that, but it does not depict all Atheism people. Does it, please?
Regards
Far as I can tell, it is in fact a constant among all atheists.

How could it possibly not be?
 

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
"what we believe as a unit"
There is no unity in the Atheism people, they are all in singles and are expected to be passive, not active in their assertions, not expected to defend it or debate their stance or be vocal, as that would be against the Atheism inherently. Right, please?
Regards
No. Atheists are people who just happen not to be theists.

Some of us will be passionate and active about various things. Some will be outspoken about atheism, denouncers of the excesses of theism, and even full-blown anti-theists.

We have no common characteristics, nor should anyone expect us to.
 

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
They are free to express things quite differently, but I am not bound by their expressions. I am a free person. Right, please?
Regards
Right.

Still, your willingness to ignore other people's perspectives will unavoidably reflect on the good will that you harvest from them.
 

Kirran

Premium Member
They are free to express things quite differently, but I am not bound by their expressions. I am a free person. Right, please?
Regards

I never said you were bound in any way, paarsurrey.

However, this does somewhat interfere with your definition of religion.

What do you think about that?
 

QuestioningMind

Well-Known Member
We see here so often an assertion from Atheism people that it is not a religion. Isn't one wrong here, please?

Regards

__________
Post #27

That depends on how you want to define religion. You're suggesting that we completely change the definition of religion. If you want to start calling your lack of belief in unicorns a religion or if you want to start calling your lack of belief in magical fairies a religion, you CAN, but by doing so you've completely altered the meaning of what a religion is. Is that your intention?
 

paarsurrey

Veteran Member
Far as I can tell, it is in fact a constant among all atheists.

How could it possibly not be?

There is no unity in the Atheism people, I believe, they are all in singles and are expected to be passive, not active in their assertions, not expected to defend it or debate their stance or be vocal, as that would be against the Atheism . Right, please?
Regards
 

ADigitalArtist

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
There is no unity in the Atheism people, I believe, they are all in singles and are expected to be passive, not active in their assertions, not expected to defend it or debate their stance or be vocal, as that would be against the Atheism . Right, please?
Regards
There are atheists who are passive and atheists who are not. The only thing that is against atheism would be to say 'there is a god or gods.'
 

Unveiled Artist

Veteran Member
"what we believe as a unit"
There is no unity in the Atheism people, they are all in singles and are expected to be passive, not active in their assertions, not expected to defend it or debate their stance or be vocal, as that would be against the Atheism . Right, please?
Regards

We see here so often an assertion from Atheism people that it is not a religion. Isn't one wrong here, please?


This does not make sense, then.

The assertion most people atheist and not assert about atheism is that it is not a religion (no creed not dogma nor history not culture) and is not made up as a unit but individual people with varies opinions about the existence of gods.

You answered your own question. No it is not right to assume atheism is a religion because as you said it has not a unit with a creed but people with singular views.
 

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
There is no unity in the Atheism people, I believe, they are all in singles and are expected to be passive, not active in their assertions, not expected to defend it or debate their stance or be vocal, as that would be against the Atheism . Right, please?
Regards
Wrong.

We can easily associate for any reason, including to present a public face for atheism.

We can very much be active in our assertions, including those about atheism and theism.

And we definitely can defend and debate atheism. We arguably have a duty to.

It just happens that many of us are not driven to do that.
 

Blastcat

Active Member
We see here so often an assertion from Atheism people that it is not a religion. Isn't one wrong here, please?

Regards

__________
Post #27
atheism isnt a religion, in the same way that not playing baseball isn't a sport

if you want to know about atheism, there are plenty of books about it

amen
 

Blastcat

Active Member
Atheism is a very passive, unremarkable stance.

Religion is very free-form, and there are definitely religions compatible with atheism (IMO all should be).

you say that atheism should include gods?

most religions include gods so how can they
POSSIBLY be compatible with atheism?

amen
 

scott777

Member
You need to be clear what your question is. Atheism is sometimes used to mean:


Absence of theism.

Belief that there is no god.


These are not identical.


Absence of theism is by definition not a religion.


Belief in non-existence of a god is not really a religion, but is a belief which requires either exceptional evidence, or a kind of faith. So it has a religious link.


But most people seem to refer to the former definition of atheism.
 

corynski

Reality First!
Premium Member
We see here so often an assertion from Atheism people that it is not a religion. Isn't one wrong here, please?

Regards

__________
Post #27

It's very simple...... atheism = a(without) + theism(god belief) = without a god belief. I see no (0, none) manifestation or evidence of anything supernatural. That's it, that's the whole thing. I don't know what anyone else perceives or experiences, so my atheism applies only to me, to the world that I perceive and experience .......
 

corynski

Reality First!
Premium Member
You need to be clear what your question is. Atheism is sometimes used to mean:


Absence of theism.

Belief that there is no god.


These are not identical.


Absence of theism is by definition not a religion.


Belief in non-existence of a god is not really a religion, but is a belief which requires either exceptional evidence, or a kind of faith. So it has a religious link.


But most people seem to refer to the former definition of atheism.

Atheism is not a 'kind of faith', and doesn't require 'exceptional evidence', unless you think you can have faith in nothing, or in the absence of something, which doesn't make sense to me. To say atheism is a belief isn't really accurate since my atheism simply means to me that there is nothing to believe in.... no gods or goddesses, no angels or tooth fairies or trolls......
 
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