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a-theism literally means "lack of belief". Bald is not a hair color.
by phailhaus 9y ago
a-theism literally means "lack of belief". Bald is not a hair color.
- the-dude 9y agoIt is a hair style.
- sremani 9y agoThe point he is making is Religion is replaced by Ideology. lets not reduce ourselves to "word-play".
- 24gttghh 9y agoNo the point GP is making is that atheism is a religion (it's not), which is in itself wordplay. To try to stay on the subject of the article, I find it interesting that it's Protestants who are abandoning their faith which is most of the downward trend in the graphs presented. I find that makes sense as Protestants are generally less dogmatic and more questioning (at least historically they were from my understanding) than their Catholic brethren. Another way to put it, I feel there are some structural differences between Protestants and Catholics which help to explain the downward trend in one, and less so in the other. edits: bad grammar
- lambdaphagy 9y agoCatholicism is a culturally "thicker" religion, which I suspect is responsible for the trend of lapsed Catholics continuing to describe themselves as Catholic in opinion polls even when effectively Nones. If you operationalized the definition, say by asking "have you been to church in the past week?" you'd probably see more similar trends.
- vidarh 9y agoAtheism is not an ideology any more than your lack of belief in invisible pink unicorns is. It is the simple absence of belief. Some atheists do have ideologies that are related to their atheism, many others do not.
- fourfaces 9y ago"a-theism literally means "lack of belief"" This is nonsense, of course. It shows a definite predilection among atheists to deceive themselves and others. Atheism is definitely a belief. But go ahead and believe otherwise, if you know what I mean.
- astura 9y ago"Everyone is just deceiving themselves and everyone else" is not a logical position to stand on. I'll also point out this is a novelty account with negative karma.