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Atheism is not dogma. That's wordsmithing to help believers in god feel comfort in a false equivalency between conception withour sperm and the cosmos / observa

Atheism is not dogma. That's wordsmithing to help believers in god feel comfort in a false equivalency between conception withour sperm and the cosmos / observable world empiricism.

ue_ 10y ago
Atheism certainly can be dogma, especially in the strong variety. It is usually also coupled with a healthy dose of scientism.
- dlwdlw 10y ago
  Yea, science is often weaponized by non-scientific people as an im-smarter-cudgel.
Apocryphon 10y ago
Atheism is not dogma, correct. But communist systems tend to employ an evangelical version of atheism that seeks to supplant traditional religions. So perhaps the more accurate word should be "anti-theism", not atheism, which is a much more generic term.
unit91 10y ago
I didn't say atheism itself is a dogma. Rather, the Chinese government (an authoritative body) has dogmatized the atheist worldview by requiring that it be held as incontrovertibly true. This isn't "wordsmithing", it's a dictionary-perfect example of what dogma is. I think a lot of folks recoil at the idea of atheist dogma because of the history of Christianity-as-law in Europe, especially medieval Europe. But this shouldn't be taken to mean that positive religious beliefs are the only possible beliefs that can be held as dogma.
pipio21 10y ago
Atheism is not dogma when you choose freely your belief in the not existence in God. In China there is not freedom, and you are forced to believe on it whenever you want it or not. This is dogma. Not all believers in God believe in Concepcion without sperm. This only applies to puritan Christians that believe in literal interpretation of the Bible. Not all believers in God believe in the Bible, not all that believe in the Bible believe in its literal interpretation, in fact hundreds of millions of people do not. And science tells us that is completely possible to have conception without sperm. There are animals that could reproduce either asexually or sexually and in the next 20-30 years it will be routine for us. We have already mixed the DNA of three parents. Most of the people that made great contributions to empiricism knowledge of the world were in fact Christians. This is a false dilemma.
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Atheism is not dogma. That's wordsmithing to help believers in god feel comfort in a false equivalency between conception withour sperm and the cosmos / observable world empiricism.

ue_ 10y ago

Atheism certainly can be dogma, especially in the strong variety. It is usually also coupled with a healthy dose of scientism.

dlwdlw 10y ago
Yea, science is often weaponized by non-scientific people as an im-smarter-cudgel.

Apocryphon 10y ago

Atheism is not dogma, correct. But communist systems tend to employ an evangelical version of atheism that seeks to supplant traditional religions. So perhaps the more accurate word should be "anti-theism", not atheism, which is a much more generic term.

unit91 10y ago

I didn't say atheism itself is a dogma. Rather, the Chinese government (an authoritative body) has dogmatized the atheist worldview by requiring that it be held as incontrovertibly true. This isn't "wordsmithing", it's a dictionary-perfect example of what dogma is. I think a lot of folks recoil at the idea of atheist dogma because of the history of Christianity-as-law in Europe, especially medieval Europe. But this shouldn't be taken to mean that positive religious beliefs are the only possible beliefs that can be held as dogma.

pipio21 10y ago

Atheism is not dogma when you choose freely your belief in the not existence in God. In China there is not freedom, and you are forced to believe on it whenever you want it or not. This is dogma. Not all believers in God believe in Concepcion without sperm. This only applies to puritan Christians that believe in literal interpretation of the Bible. Not all believers in God believe in the Bible, not all that believe in the Bible believe in its literal interpretation, in fact hundreds of millions of people do not. And science tells us that is completely possible to have conception without sperm. There are animals that could reproduce either asexually or sexually and in the next 20-30 years it will be routine for us. We have already mixed the DNA of three parents. Most of the people that made great contributions to empiricism knowledge of the world were in fact Christians. This is a false dilemma.

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