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Originally Posted by blankall
You could easily use that doctrine and enforce it on others. This is what Stalin did. This is what Mao did.
Whether or not you want to accept it, atheists believe in an absolute. Thefore, there is a wide variety of rules associated with that.
They believe in no god, no after life, no soul, etc..etc.. It's basically the anti-thesis of every religion and, therefore, everytime a religion makes a new rule atheists disagree with automatically an atheist makes a rule in opposition.
Whether or not you want to accept it, atheism is very much a belief and very much an ideology. The truth is noone can conclusively answer the questions of faith. By definition faith exists outside of logic. Anyone who conclusively believes they have an answer to questions of faith has an ideology. Atheism may not be a religion in itself, but it is a specific view of the spiritual world (ie it doesn't exist) and, therfore, an ideology.
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Atheism is not an ideology; it's not even a single belief, much less a system of interconnected beliefs, and by itself atheism does not guide anyone, anywhere. The same would be true if we defined atheism narrowly as denial of the existence of gods: that single belief is not a system of principles.