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Old 01-28-2009, 02:38 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by Igottago View Post
Isn't religion essentially an organized group who believe in a set of principles and philosophies?

So now atheists want to be recognized as a group with their own principles and philosophies? Kind of ironic.

Seems to me they are basically taking the Seinfeld approach and creating a religion about nothing.
Atheism, as a political/social movement, has always had a loosely-defined set of principles and philosophies. I don't see what's new or controversial about that.

The difference between atheists and followers of theistic religions is that atheists don't acknowledge the existance of an all-powerful magical space fairy who created the universe.
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