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While non-religious and religious are reasonably disjointed sets, atheism is not disjoint with religious. That is the set containing the union of atheist with r

• joshuaissac 2y ago
  That's right. There are religions without any gods, so they are atheistic, but they still have other religious beliefs.
  • jackbravo 2y ago
    And there are many people that continue to be religious even after becoming atheists. "The little book of atheist spirituality" from André Comte-Sponville, touches on this subject, and many others. I'm would also call myself an atheist-catholic. I remember a joke in the book where two rabbis are discussing the issue of god's existence during the supper, at the end, they both agree that god must not exist and then go to sleep. At the next day one rabbi finds the other doing his early prayers and confounded asks him why he is praying if there is no god, to which the other one answers "what does praying has to do with god?".
    • exodust 2y ago
      I like the one that goes "why did god create the universe? because he didn't have a choice".
• ninetyninenine 2y ago
  Right. I actually meant what you said. What I said is a mistake.