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Originally Posted by pylon
One of the points of being Atheist, is to give an easy name to denounce your faith in god.
Instead of saying ,"Sorry, I do not believe in god or religion."
You just say ,"I'm Atheist."
So no, not in a million years is it a religion. However, I may be agnostic. I am still trying to figure that out.
A little off topic, but let the religious experts answer this. If I believe there may be an unexplainable scientific element to the afterlife, that modern science currently could never explain or our minds simply couldn't perceive, yet do not believe in any gods per se, what does that make me? Think of it as I believe the human mind/soul is like a form of energy, and I don't necessarily believe it just deletes when you die. I am open to the idea that something happens with that energy perhaps in a higher plane of existence, or another dimension. Is that agnostic? Or am I still an Atheist?
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That's definitely more agnostic than atheist. In fact, it could be a type of theism, you'd just have to find a philosophy you agree with more or less.
Of course, that raises the question about the difference of religion v philosophy again.
It's (your theory, more or less) an idea that I always found comforting. Course if the energy did transfer or evolve, what would happen to your personality or sense of self? It would most like be gone too, so you wouldn't really 'know' one way or another.
Course it could be replaced with something else. Like a sense of 'oneness' with all other energy per se. Or an overwhelming wisdom and peace (through the greater understanding or perspective). It's a popular enough idea.