Religion

[SuperFireKirby]

^You enter the void and become non-existence wind

ftfy

[mikey]

^You enter the void and become non-existence wind Kassadin

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

Truly committing to atheism takes just as much faith as Christianity and therefore I count it as a religion.

Committing to having no faith takes just as much faith as a faith based system of thinking, right.

[Olimar12345]

Not sure if you are agreeing with Blue, or if you worded that incorrectly...

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

I was sarcastically agreeing with him.

[mikey]

part of the problem with that statement is that it used the word faith 3 times

[Olimar12345]

Your supposed sarcasm was weak though : /

[SlowPokemon]

I agree with PDS on a lot of points but there are much nicer and less offensive ways to say what he wants to.

[ZeldaFan]

I have a question for PDS ~ what would you do if you died and there actually was a god and a heaven/afterlife?

[mikey]

he'd remember this conversation and feel foolish xD

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

he'd remember this conversation and feel foolish xD

I have a question for PDS ~ what would you do if you died and there actually was a god and a heaven/afterlife?

I should've added some more wit to it, you're right, but I had to get off the computer XD
Allow me to reword it: Atheism takes no faith. The whole point of atheism is a lack of faith, so to say that it takes as much faith as an actual religion is illogical.

I have a question for PDS ~ what would you do if you died and there actually was a god and a heaven/afterlife?

I would first ask, "Which god are you?", followed by "Why did you play a game of hide and seek with us", followed with "So, ebola, huh? And pediatric cancer? And Tay-Sachs? You created all those. What kind of sick person creates a world for his children that has such sickness?"

he'd remember this conversation and feel foolish xD

Hardly- if there is a God, I'd hope that A) He recognizes that I'm a mostly good person, and B) appreciates a search for the truth rather than believing simply "just in case" or because I happened to be born into the one religion out of thousands and out of one point in history that just happened to be correct.

[SlowPokemon]

Forget it I don't want to align with PDS at all in this...you're saying some pretty horrible things

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

Forget it I don't want to align with PDS at all in this...you're saying some pretty horrible things

Which things do you object to?
Frankly, I'm actually not as bad as many.. look at Hitchens XD And Dawkins, and Kyle Kulinski (though he's more of a political commentator than anything else)
The things I'm saying would be nothing compared to the tyrannic figure that God seems to be 

[Olimar12345]

PDS: What Blue meant though was that it takes just as much faith to not have a faith than it would to have a specific belief. (Just narrowly avoided using the word "faith" three times xD )

And being religious is not about being a "good person."

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

PDS: What Blue meant though was that it takes just as much faith to not have a faith than it would to have a specific belief. (Just narrowly avoided using the word "faith" three times xD )

Except it doesn't, lol.
It takes just as much ___ to have none of that object than it does to have a lot of it.
Substitute this with, say, medicine. It takes just as much medicine to have no medicine than it does to have all the standard vaccines children are mandated by schools to have.