Why do Atheists Hate Religion?

[Tusk]

The universe is alive and evolving along with us, empathy is conscious entropy and dogma remains our greatest enemy.

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[jokinfol]

I don't hate religion as much as I hate the extremists in said religion... But I'll be honest, yeah, I'm not that fond of religion. It doesn't mean I don't like the more sane people following it, my whole family is Christian, afterall, but religion has caused so much hate and fear in this world already it'd be better without it.

[Tusk]

Religions set themselves up as gatekeepers to control the ignorant masses to serve them.

[Andy-Bell]

Looks like it could take a few more years before we can all agree that we're basically f**ed because of our own stupidity and personal beliefs.

Crazy to think that with the technical know how and knowledge we have right now we could make sure not a single person on the planet dies of thirst, hunger and thousands of easily curable diseases.
But it's just not profitable i'm afraid, you're just going to have to die...

go team!!  lol

[mOgliE]

Yes easy; He's a stupid asshole too full of himself to even think about what you're saying.

Words are important: control them

I control them perfectly, look:

I think you're just another zealous extremist fanatic and you probably deserve nothing more than my scorn.

I say probably because you're maybe a good man, but from the way you express yourself, your incapacity to listen to other, I doubt it.

[eon89]

Atheists don't hate religion. Religion hates atheists. What atheists don't LIKE is how religion transforms sane people into mindless drones. Which is religion's purpose BTW.

[BADecker]

Atheists don't hate religion. Religion hates atheists. What atheists don't LIKE is how religion transforms sane people into mindless drones. Which is religion's purpose BTW.

Atheism is a religion.   

[BADecker]

Religions set themselves up as gatekeepers to control the ignorant masses to serve them.

Atheists set themselves up as gatekeepers to control the masses. Atheism is a religion.

[BADecker]

I don't hate religion as much as I hate the extremists in said religion... But I'll be honest, yeah, I'm not that fond of religion. It doesn't mean I don't like the more sane people following it, my whole family is Christian, afterall, but religion has caused so much hate and fear in this world already it'd be better without it.

Why be hateful at all.

You can find hateful people in religion. But you can find loving people in religion, as well. It's the same with the religion of atheism.

[BADecker]

The universe is alive and evolving along with us, empathy is conscious entropy and dogma remains our greatest enemy.

The only changes that come about in the universe, are the changes God programmed into the universe from the beginning, AND any miracles He might do.

[organofcorti]

I don't hate religion as much as I hate the extremists in said religion... But I'll be honest, yeah, I'm not that fond of religion. It doesn't mean I don't like the more sane people following it, my whole family is Christian, afterall, but religion has caused so much hate and fear in this world already it'd be better without it.

Why be hateful at all.

You can find hateful people in religion. But you can find loving people in religion, as well. It's the same with the religion of atheism.

You keep saying that atheism is a religion, and yet everyone I've asked IRL thinks atheism is *not* a religion. I'm pretty sure your definition of religion is very much a minority opinion, possibly even a minority of one in one billion.

[Tusk]

The universe is alive and evolving along with us, empathy is conscious entropy and dogma remains our greatest enemy.

The only changes that come about in the universe, are the changes God programmed into the universe from the beginning, AND any miracles He might do.

AMGOD = DOGMA 

[Gimpeline]

I don't hate religion as much as I hate the extremists in said religion... But I'll be honest, yeah, I'm not that fond of religion. It doesn't mean I don't like the more sane people following it, my whole family is Christian, afterall, but religion has caused so much hate and fear in this world already it'd be better without it.

Why be hateful at all.

You can find hateful people in religion. But you can find loving people in religion, as well. It's the same with the religion of atheism.

Atheism is a religion in the in the same way that celibacy is a sexposition

[mOgliE]

I don't hate religion as much as I hate the extremists in said religion... But I'll be honest, yeah, I'm not that fond of religion. It doesn't mean I don't like the more sane people following it, my whole family is Christian, afterall, but religion has caused so much hate and fear in this world already it'd be better without it.

Why be hateful at all.

You can find hateful people in religion. But you can find loving people in religion, as well. It's the same with the religion of atheism.

You keep saying that atheism is a religion, and yet everyone I've asked IRL thinks atheism is *not* a religion. I'm pretty sure your definition of religion is very much a minority opinion, possibly even a minority of one in one billion.

Or even of one in the world. The very base of a religion is to believe in one or more gods. The very point of atheism is to refuse the existence of any god...

Seems rather obvious who's right here.

[BADecker]

I don't hate religion as much as I hate the extremists in said religion... But I'll be honest, yeah, I'm not that fond of religion. It doesn't mean I don't like the more sane people following it, my whole family is Christian, afterall, but religion has caused so much hate and fear in this world already it'd be better without it.

Why be hateful at all.

You can find hateful people in religion. But you can find loving people in religion, as well. It's the same with the religion of atheism.

You keep saying that atheism is a religion, and yet everyone I've asked IRL thinks atheism is *not* a religion. I'm pretty sure your definition of religion is very much a minority opinion, possibly even a minority of one in one billion.

I want to thank you for your post, here. I was wondering why the people of the world have been floundering for the lase 5 decades. Now I see.

People can't even look a word up in a dictionary anymore. But when they do, some of them want to ignore the parts of the meaning that they don't want to see. And if you want to consider that I do this, I do... once in awhile. But rather than make a blanket statement, I point out the ways that the definitions fit.

Do we really have to do this again? Are you never going to see that by the dictionary definitions, atheism is a religion? And if the simple words of the dictionary are difficult for you to understand, do you still not realize that there are some simple websites out there that help you understand that atheism is a religion, even after I have pointed them out to you?

Regarding the definition of atheism as a religion, there are three kinds of people in this world.
1. The kind that haven't thought about it, and didn't realize it, and would say that they didn't know it because they hadn't thought about it.
2. The kind that accept what the dictionary definitions express... that atheism is a religion.
3. The kind that ignore the dictionary right in the face of the thing, and try to obscure the dictionary meanings.
That's it. You don't need me to help you fit into one of the categories. You can do it all by yourself. How do we know? Because you show by your posting that you have at least a reasonable understanding of the English language.

Since you continually attempt to obscure the fact that atheism is a religion, you are either trolling a bit, or you have a great desire to change meanings of certain words.

Have you started writing your own dictionary, yet?

However, in all of this, more and more people can see where they fit in regarding this subject. Why? Because some of them will read this, and will make the effort to understand. If posts about this subject were not here, people might not have the opportunity to be directed into thinking about it. So, no matter what people want to believe about it, they are finding which of the 3 categories they fall into.

So, thanks again for your post.



EDIT: Oh, Btw, because no two people in the world think exactly the same way, every person's definition is unique. The question isn't the uniqueness. The question is whether or not a word matches the dictionary definition.

[BADecker]

I don't hate religion as much as I hate the extremists in said religion... But I'll be honest, yeah, I'm not that fond of religion. It doesn't mean I don't like the more sane people following it, my whole family is Christian, afterall, but religion has caused so much hate and fear in this world already it'd be better without it.

Why be hateful at all.

You can find hateful people in religion. But you can find loving people in religion, as well. It's the same with the religion of atheism.

Atheism is a religion in the in the same way that celibacy is a sexposition

Do you have as much trouble using a dictionary as opening one?   

[organofcorti]

I don't hate religion as much as I hate the extremists in said religion... But I'll be honest, yeah, I'm not that fond of religion. It doesn't mean I don't like the more sane people following it, my whole family is Christian, afterall, but religion has caused so much hate and fear in this world already it'd be better without it.

Why be hateful at all.

You can find hateful people in religion. But you can find loving people in religion, as well. It's the same with the religion of atheism.

You keep saying that atheism is a religion, and yet everyone I've asked IRL thinks atheism is *not* a religion. I'm pretty sure your definition of religion is very much a minority opinion, possibly even a minority of one in one billion.

Or even of one in the world.

Religion is an English word, so I'm estimating one billion total English speakers (native plus ESL). One in a billion is effectively one in the world.

The very base of a religion is to believe in one or more gods. The very point of atheism is to refuse the existence of any god...

Seems rather obvious who's right here.

True, but BADecker has a developed an entire system of illogic designed to bamboozle in order to prove that it is so.

So, very time he baits someone by saying "btdubs, atheism ⊂ religion", I post here to encourage him to produce new arguments. Maybe he'll eventually realise his "Atheism is a religion, and if it isn't it is anyway" aren't logical arguments, just self-contained contradictions.

[organofcorti]

I don't hate religion as much as I hate the extremists in said religion... But I'll be honest, yeah, I'm not that fond of religion. It doesn't mean I don't like the more sane people following it, my whole family is Christian, afterall, but religion has caused so much hate and fear in this world already it'd be better without it.

Why be hateful at all.

You can find hateful people in religion. But you can find loving people in religion, as well. It's the same with the religion of atheism.

You keep saying that atheism is a religion, and yet everyone I've asked IRL thinks atheism is *not* a religion. I'm pretty sure your definition of religion is very much a minority opinion, possibly even a minority of one in one billion.

I want to thank you for your post, here. I was wondering why the people of the world have been floundering for the lase 5 decades. Now I see.

People can't even look a word up in a dictionary anymore. But when they do, some of them want to ignore the parts of the meaning that they don't want to see. And if you want to consider that I do this, I do... once in awhile. But rather than make a blanket statement, I point out the ways that the definitions fit.

Do we really have to do this again? Are you never going to see that by the dictionary definitions, atheism is a religion? And if the simple words of the dictionary are difficult for you to understand, do you still not realize that there are some simple websites out there that help you understand that atheism is a religion, even after I have pointed them out to you?

Oh dear, nothing new? You pointed out one definition amongst many, and claimed that it is definitive. That's not how definitions work.

For example, Dictionary.com lists several definitions of "God", one of which is:

"Any deified person or object"

Since that is *one* of the definitions, by your logic I can say that any God is just a "deified person or object", because that is one of its dictionary definitions.

Do you understand now?

[mOgliE]

I don't think he will realize it. Talking with BADecker is like talking to a drunken guy. When you think you proved your point he just changes subject cause "you know that's how the universe is"  

[BADecker]

I don't hate religion as much as I hate the extremists in said religion... But I'll be honest, yeah, I'm not that fond of religion. It doesn't mean I don't like the more sane people following it, my whole family is Christian, afterall, but religion has caused so much hate and fear in this world already it'd be better without it.

Why be hateful at all.

You can find hateful people in religion. But you can find loving people in religion, as well. It's the same with the religion of atheism.

You keep saying that atheism is a religion, and yet everyone I've asked IRL thinks atheism is *not* a religion. I'm pretty sure your definition of religion is very much a minority opinion, possibly even a minority of one in one billion.

Or even of one in the world.

Religion is an English word, so I'm estimating one billion total English speakers (native plus ESL). One in a billion is effectively one in the world.

The very base of a religion is to believe in one or more gods. The very point of atheism is to refuse the existence of any god...

Seems rather obvious who's right here.

True, but BADecker has a developed an entire system of illogic designed to bamboozle in order to prove that it is so.

So, very time he baits someone by saying "btdubs, atheism ⊂ religion", I post here to encourage him to produce new arguments. Maybe he'll eventually realise his "Atheism is a religion, and if it isn't it is anyway" aren't logical arguments, just self-contained contradictions.

Since you don't want to believe what the dictionary says, nobody knows what you are saying with the English words you use. You might be talking about something that is extremely different than you mean by the words you use.