Re: Re: Re: Religion in the Monastery.

Wrong.

Atheism is a lack of belief in God or gods. It is not an active disbelief. More than that, there is no dogma associated. Atheist means "not theist", and can no more be considered a single religion than "not Christian" is.

To underscore this I note that there are a number of recognized religions that are consistent with atheism. Two examples being Scientology and Buddhism - religions which don't have much in common.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Religion in the Monastery. by LameNerd (Hermit) on Apr 30, 2003 at 16:20 UTC
Interesting post. Would you agree with my use of set thoery? Atheism is the "null set" to any set of religions. Just as null would be contained in any set of integers yet null is not an integer.	[reply]
Re^5: Religion in the Monastery. by toro (Beadle) on Jun 15, 2011 at 13:21 UTC
Atheism is trivially a belief. However, atheism doesn't occupy the same special status as the zero element — it's not "at the bottom of" ∀ beliefs. Nor is it really the canvas on which other things are painted, as with a null array. BTW, {} ∉ Z. {} ⊂ Z.	[reply]
Re^6: Religion in the Monastery. by jdporter (Paladin) on Jun 16, 2011 at 12:31 UTC
Excellent observation. Very well put.	[reply]
Re^4: Religion in the Monastery. by wrinkles (Pilgrim) on Jun 16, 2011 at 22:18 UTC
Faith is how someone develops a concept of "Who am I?". Religion happens when people band together with others who share roughly the same concept, and start making rules and such based on these common concepts. There is even an atheist Church of Reality. So atheism certainly can be the basis of a religion.	[reply]


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