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Jamie handed us Satan's Data Connection. You see, sane and rational human being, the
USB logo is actually in the shape of a trident, and the obvious action to Evangelical Christians in Brazil is to ban its use. Hopefully they don't mispronounce SCSI and find themselves lusting after their PCs.
Let's see ... one guy wanted it to be "sexy" .... while the rest of the world decided it should be "scuzzy" .... so, of course, the one guy is right!
Wait, what?
Well, not exactly. If one wanted to oversimplify things then sure. For the rest of us who live in reality, we realize there are many different conceptions of atheism, and some of these conceptions would qualify as a religion under some definitions of religion.
Nope. There are many different belief systems which may include atheism, and some of those may be considered religions, but not atheism itself.
Thus, it's too simplistic to simply pound the table saying, "Atheism is not a fucking religion."
Though, I can certainly understand the psychology behind why "Internet atheists" would not want atheism to be viewed as a religion, a dogma, a position, or a worldview.
Wow, you just keep missing the basic picture, don't you? Atheism could be part of a religion. It could be a dogmatic statement. It could be a position and it most certainly does inform a worldview. But it is not any of those.
I can certainly understand why you want to try and equate them, though. Religions are in general so foolish and puerile that you have to imagine that the atheist you are debating is saddled with the same nonsense that you are. Otherwise, you just end up looking like a jackass jawing on about hand-me-down delusions.
I mean, if it were any of these things then an atheist would bare a burden -- the burden of supporting their perspective.
I have no problem supporting my perspective. I do it all the time. But my position is far more than simple atheism.
As it is, the pansy definition of atheism provides atheists with a means to attack theism, and then when rightly the theists expect the atheists to present and defend an alternative perspective, per the Gricean maxims of conversation, they can simply retreat back to their safety hole. (In other words, I see atheists who push this definition as nothing more than intellectual pussies.)
That's ok. I see theists as intellectual pussies who can't handle reality and so run like little sobbing children to hide behind the skirts of their imaginary sky bully who will protect them from the universe which really doesn't give a flying fuck about them. Grow the fuck up.
All that is necessary for the triumph of good is that evil men do nothing.