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My religion is atheist? (self.atheism)

submitted 2 days ago by Kintarian to c/atheism

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I find it odd that when filling out a form that asked me what my religion is one of the choices is Atheist.

What now? That is the that opposite of religion.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (11 children)

It depends how you define "religion"

Atheism is a belief. You have a belief that there is no supernatural being or power. A lack of belief in anything is agnosticism, not atheism.

If you define religion as a belief (I would) then there you go. If it's a set of practices and dogmas, then technically Christianity isn't a religion and it's denominations are as they practice things differently and some have added dogmas or different interpretations, even though they believe in the same God and have the same fundamentals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Atheism is a belief

No, it's not. Theism the belief in a higher power, put the prefix a- on it and you get "doesn't believe in a higher power"

Atheism is literally the lack of belief. It doesn't make a positive statement that there's not something there, it just means they don't believe

[–] [email protected] 0 points 20 hours ago (7 children)

The lack of belief is agnosticism. Atheists believe that there is no god, which is an active belief