To: Tired of Taxes
"You can call "atheism" a religion just like Newdow does, but that doesn't make it so."
Isn't the belief that there is no God (Gods) actually a belief? I don't see how anyone could be any more than an "agnostic"...at least as *I* define one: "Agnostic: A person who doesn't know whether or not God (or Gods) exist."
To: Mark Bahner
I just had this discussion with an "agnostic" in another forum... There seems to be very little difference between agnostics and atheists. "Agnostic" means "without knowledge" and "atheism" means "without belief". I used to call myself an "agnostic" until a few years ago. Now I call myself an "atheist", but my views haven't changed much. Theists have a belief that something exists; but they cannot define it, and, when they do try to describe it, it's something that cannot possibly exist. So, atheists don't have a "belief"; we're simply without the belief that theists have.
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