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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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I disagree. Atheists don't necessarily make a rule that is the opposite of every rule made by a religion. You are really reaching here.
As an atheist I would believe there is no god. If Christianity says you have to wait for marriage to have sex I don't say automatically that you MUST have sex before marriage. This is up to the individual I've never heard atheists say YOU must get married or YOU should never get married. Just don't do it to please "god". You are suggesting that atheists pick and choose what to disagree with in religion. It's not the rules they disagree with, it's the belief in a divine being, therefore the religion that tells you how to live doesn't necessarily apply, at least not in the sense that you must do things a particular way to please "god".
It seems to me that most atheists fall into the do what you want, just don't do it because you think god is looking down on you for whatever you choose. Maybe that's too simplistic.