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Originally Posted by Smelly Fred
They don't bat for the atheist team nor never will.
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No one claimed they did, so you can stop fussing about it then.
Use the term secular then instead if this is causing you so much angst. DWB is a secular organization, not advocating a religious viewpoint, are they then incapable of providing comfort and encouragement to people because of their lack of a religious foundation?
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Originally Posted by Smelly Fred
They are neither theist nor atheist.
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Lol, there's no middle ground between the two. Simple question, "Do you believe there is a god or gods?". If you answer yes, then you are a theist, if not then you are atheist.
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Originally Posted by Smelly Fred
Again I reiterate what atheist organisations helped in Haiti.
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Define "atheist organizations". If you mean an organization with the non-belief in god as its foundation, well of course there wasn't any of those helping in Haiti, that's like asking what organizations with the non-belief in the tooth fairy as its foundation helped in Haiti!
It's such an absurd question. Atheists are simply people who do not believe there is a god, they aren't an organized group with a single professed worldview or a single professed philosophy, why would you expect to see an organization with goals and purposes rooted in a common set of principles when atheists don't have a common set of principles?
What you would expect to see is organizations like the Red Cross and Crescent organizations, Unicef, DWB, Amnesty International, etc who are secular in nature, who's actions and goals are not rooted in and grown from a particular religious group, but from a diverse set of worldviews.
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Originally Posted by Smelly Fred
You defile the very meaning of what such organisations stand for in your attempts to make them partisan players.
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Yay drama and hyperbole!