Non-Religious Agnostic doesn't suit you?Originally Posted by Tristuskhan
Atheist doesn't suit you?
Fine, then don't click an answer.
Re: Into What Religion Were You Born Or Raised?
Non-Religious Agnostic doesn't suit you?
Atheist doesn't suit you?
Fine, then don't click an answer.
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Re: Into What Religion Were You Born Or Raised?
Non-religious agnostic does not suit me, since it leaves some room for mystic feelings, things I have not.
And atheïsm is not a religion, mind you (but I suppose the debate already took place often in the backroom).
Why did not you include a "Gah!" option in this poll? For those who grew up in famillies where religion was just a non-issue?
Last edited by Tristuskhan; 10-30-2008 at 00:23.
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Re: Into What Religion Were You Born Or Raised?
Because "Atheist" suggests that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
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Re: Into What Religion Were You Born Or Raised?
As you say: religions are just non-issues for Atheists, so classifying Atheism as a religion is as insulting for an Atheist as classifying religions as "superstitions" is for a Believer.
"Les Cons ça ose tout, c'est même à ça qu'on les reconnait"
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Re: Into What Religion Were You Born Or Raised?
The question was "Into what religion were you born or raised" (is there actually a difference between the two?), which implies that the options are religions or "I was not raised/born into any religion". Choosing the word "atheist" instead of that can be misleading since there are many who falsely believe atheism really is a religion.
I'm also not so sure that "agnostic" should be an option since that's not on the same scale. Me, I would click "I was not raised into any religion, and am now in formality an agnostic atheist, but in practice a gnostic atheist" - if I didn't object to calling myself "an atheist". I don't identify myself by what I'm not.
So, well, there you have me.
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