your religion

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hardcore UU Christian

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One of my hobbies is mocking the devoutly religious.

You mean Im not the only one? Phew!


But seriously, Atheist.

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WTF was I thinking back then? Good lord.

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Just to clear up that Im not religious for being Atheist, technically, as you might know already, Im a Secular Humanist, which is a philosophy. There. It doesnt matter now, settled.

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There has to be a some form of deity for it to be a religion.

Buddhism.

Does that even count as a religion?  I could have sworn I've heard of people who were Christian Buddhists.

Ok, I stand corrected. Thanks. Although I guess it often fits definition number 4, though that's not the one being used in this context.

Not really, unless he's a zealous atheist who goes around preaching to everyone, and even then, it's not really a religion in the sense you mean.

It is a religious belief, though. Your intensity of feelings and opinions and the degree of certainty that you have is the same for the most part as those of someone who believes in God. So it doesn't really make sense to me to be strongly anti-religion if one of the reasons for doing so is that you hate the fact that religious people are intolerant...

Holding a belief that relates to religion is rather different than adhering to a religion.

True, it's not the same thing of course. But I guess my point was that people who are passionately in favor of God not existing are in many ways the opposite side of the same coin of people who are passionately in favor of God existing. I view anyone with extreme views on religion who is absolutely 100 percent sure beyond all possible doubt that they are correct and that everyone who doesn't agree with them is stupid/doomed to hell as being a bit ridiculous.

I agree. Anyone at this point in what we know who can say honestly that they believe they are 100% correct is definetly a little too faithful.