I have decided to become the follower of all the atheists

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Re: I have decided to become the follower of all the atheist

Post by Coito ergo sum » Fri Jan 07, 2011 4:48 pm

Stein wrote:
Coito ergo sum wrote:
Stein wrote:
Coito ergo sum wrote:Atheists show every day that atheism is not a philosophy by virtue of their being atheists of every stripe - Republican atheists - Democrat atheist - Marxist atheists - Libertarian atheists - Epicurean atheists - Stoic atheists - Rationalist atheists - Empiricist atheists - atheists can be religious
Sorry, I just have to query this. How can atheists be religious?

Stein
If a religious belief does not entail belief in a god or gods, then an atheist can hold that religious belief and still be an atheist.

Buddhists can be atheists. Buddhist scriptures either do not promote or actively reject the existence of a creator god, the existence of "lesser" gods who are the source of morality,
Not quite. Brahma is held up as a mirror of what humans should aspire to in sermon #13 of the Digha-Nikaya --
The fact remains, Buddhists can be - and more importantly often "are" - atheists.
Stein wrote:
-- Now, this is not quite saying that Brahma is the direct source of moral behavior. But it is implying that Brahma can at least be used for instruction in moral behavior.
But, not a god, or at least not necessarily a god.
Stein wrote:
Coito ergo sum wrote: schools of Hindu philosophy reject the existence of a creator god, making them explicitly atheistic from a Hindu perspective.
But not from the perspective of 100 out of 100 modern atheists.
That's not true. There are modern Hindu atheists. Atheism does not require a rejection in the supernatural. To use an extreme example to make a point, an atheist may believe in ghosts, or reincarnation. The only requirement of atheism is that the person not believe in gods.

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