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Originally Posted by Claeren
I don't consider Atheisim a religion though.
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By default it's not. It becomes so when atheists get organized. Sort of like the difference between Liberals and liberals.
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I care very much what others believe because the ignorance pushed by most (not all) church groups leads to the hate and small world views that are causing many of the worlds most serious problems. Iraq, Afganistan, Yugoslavia, Cechynia, etc.
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Would you advocate pushing an atheist world view upon the population? Or would you rather foster an environment in which an individual is given the opportunity to make up their own mind?
My understanding of the psychology of atheism leads me to suspect the later.
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When people start caring for people because they are people, not because someone told them to or it gets them into heaven or whatever, the world will be a better place IMO.
Claeren.
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It would be a better place. Although humanism can be practised by Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindu's, and atheists equally. Religious beliefs don't have to factor into the equation at all. And in their absence, tyrants would just find another vector with which to perpetrate their inhumanity.
I do wonder though, without a religious system, what social mechanism will take up the charge of providing the moral standard for society.