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Originally Posted by paulgiamatti
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I have to reiterate, I just think it's incredibly silly that atheism has become a "movement". I think it's absurd to proclaim, "I am an atheist!". What are you atheistic about? Thor? Zeus? The tooth fairy? Everyone is an atheist when it comes to some deity or another, just as agnosticism is atheistic by definition - it's still the unbelief in deity.
I do have to differ on calling statism a religion though, even though I know that's a point that's often made by many leftist public intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky. It doesn't make sense in my mind to suddenly start calling a whole bunch of different things "religion" when we all know exactly what religion is and what religion means. Just because I religiously brush my teeth in the morning doesn't mean I am now devoted to the religion of dental hygiene.
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That's exactly right. Honestly I just don't have a better word for what I mentioned than "religion." The things I mentioned just share many attributes with religion.