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Apple Causes Religious Reaction In Brains of Fans
satuon writes "In a recently screened BBC documentary called 'Secrets of the Superbrands', UK neuroscientists found that the brains of Apple fans are stimulated by images of Apple products in the same areas as those triggered by religious imagery in a person of faith. According to the scientists, this suggests that the big tech brands have harnessed, or exploit, the brain areas that have evolved to process religion."
Atheism isn't a religion, but it is a leap of faith nevertheless. You are basically saying, without any proof, that god doesn't exist at the same time as a preacher is saying, without any proof, that god does exist, and neither of you have really defined who or what God is.
So yeah, keep pretending you're different from theists...
I'm god, but it's a bit of a drag really...
When Apple and Creative had their mp3 players out, one was the size of a deck of cards and the other was the size of a portable cd player http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Creative_Nomad_Jukebox_(DAP).jpg . THAT is why one was more popular than the other.
You're painting all atheists with the gnostic atheist brush. Most atheists are agnostic/soft/implicit atheists. That is, they don't claim to know weather or not a god exists, but they think it likely that none do.