tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7387837261213229289.post7624586716721350783..comments2023-03-25T07:04:42.899-07:00Comments on Skeptimus Prime: Is atheism really a religion?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04470392187213526525noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7387837261213229289.post-14052854219577211002012-03-17T19:00:59.297-07:002012-03-17T19:00:59.297-07:00Agreed. I, too, was disappointed when she introdu...Agreed. I, too, was disappointed when she introduced the brain scan "data" but offered no evidence that atheists have similar brain activity when.... oh.... I don't know..... eating babies? Be that as it may the tendency for like-minded people to organize does not constitute religion. You could get the same fervency from a staunch democrat arguing with a hard-line republican, but that doesn't make liberalism/conservatism a religion.<br /><br />I've noticed that it's only religious people who think atheism is a religion. They probably have a hard time wrapping their head around such a concept. I like to think of it as similar to the time before there was the number zero. You would think that it's such a simple concept how could counting have ever existed without zero? But in fact, counting systems existed long before zero became a "number." People back then had a hard time wrapping their brains around such a concept, just as people now seem to have a hard time accepting that atheism is the absence of religion.SevenOfNinenoreply@blogger.com