Thy Plague Doctor

Simon Paynton wrote:I consider myself a spiritual atheist, because I’m spiritual and an atheist. I’m a lot of other things as well.

I think that the word “spiritual” isn’t an exclusively religious word, and even though it happens to have the word “spirit” in it, it’s OK to appropriate it for atheist purposes, if we put the word “atheist” in fr…

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Farewell Pluto. This fortunate image was grabbed as New Horizons sped away from the planet as quickly as it approached it.

I am curious why for some it would be a little offensive to say that atheism IS a worldview…would there be anything wrong with that?

I’m not taking a stance either way right now….just asking the questions ? I’m not sure I’ve totally formed my own opinion on the issue…

I do sort of like what Arcus was saying…being somewhat of a linguist myse…

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There’s a show called ‘Impastor”?

{Bang head here}

If someone were to ask me what my perspective of the world as I see it was, I doubt the first words out of my mouth would be “without gods”. I’m without blonde hair, for example, I have no blue eyes and I’m missing dimples. They’d be slightly ahead on my list of things I lack 🙂 (the first item being a lack of a list of things I lack).

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I would vaguely pretend to be a pastor…meanwhile asking my flock about their faith and questions that might lead them to doubt…without ever trying to steer them back towards faith…even quite possibly affirming those doubts. I would slowly betray a growing lack of faith until eventually I told the congregation that it would be best to turn…[Read more]

LOL no…no misaprehension. I said no in extremely large font because this question comes up so often in so many different ways … and because characters like Dr. Bob repeated his nonsense about atheism as being something other than believing in his preposterous stupid imbecilic world view … that I thought it might be a nice idea to put as big…[Read more]

Belle’s question was… “Is atheism a world view”. The answer is no. Atheism is not a world view. Some people might take the qualities they used to become an atheist and exagerate those qualities in their daily lives (perhaps because of the hostile environment they live in or the desire to get other people from believing in their God) but that is…[Read more]

Islamophobia is a word that is so abused it has lost almost all credibility as a reasonable descriptive adjective. When people say Islamophobe…they really mean anit-muslim (against muslims in general). I think that those who are anti-muslims need to reflect on why they generalise and attack an entire group of people who only share a set of…[Read more]

Atheism is NOT a world view. It is a lack of belief in God (or the rejection of all claims made that a God exists). That is not a world view. Not even close.

If you are interested in a world view…consider HUMANISM. Most people on this site are clearly humanists, even if they don’t say so (or even know so).

Tara,

Don’t for a second feel the slightest bit bad for responding to religious nonsense in a public environment if they bring the subject up in the first place. If they are so insecure with their beliefs that they get upset when you quote their own scriptures (which they likely quote themselves when its convenient) then their position is not…[Read more]

@Unseen Good topic. We are drafting etc, and can amend rules. The thing to bear in mind are that the rules are to protect the site from abuse and try to let the ads carry the site cost. That’s all we are really trying to achieve.