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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] 85 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Atheism is a religion the same way bald is a hair color.

[–] Nednarb44 23 points 1 day ago

I told a religious buddy of mine that atheism is a religion the same way "off" is a TV channel. He struggled to comprehend how that's even possible lol

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Thanks; I'm stealing that!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The closest I have to religion is naturalist, which is to say based on the data I have, I can't find any evidence anywhere of supernatural effects, and while I haven't personally done the looking, the scientific consensus is that there's nothing, even when it comes to religious investigators actively looking for evidence of the stuff they expect to see.

To date, there are some pretty high bounties on evidence of various kinds of spooky shit that remain unclaimed.

Of course, I don't know this to be the case. The simulation hypothesis has not been ruled out, which would allow for effects we cannot detect. It doesn't stop me from worshiping my cat. (Cat-huffing. It's a thing.) And it raises questions whether we are the same person when we wake up after non-REM sleep, or a new iteration of the identity. (The transporter paradox). But so far, the most likely explanation is we're material girls living in a material world.

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

In my opinion, if somebody states that there's something spooky going on, then the onus is on them to provide evidence and prove what they're saying. I don't have to do anything.

[–] AngryCommieKender 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Don't we have spooky quarks? I know we have strange ones, and charm quarks... Feels like we should have spooky quarks.

[–] Kintarian 3 points 16 hours ago

We do have spooky action at a distance

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

We have quantum entanglement, basically magic

[–] olafurp 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Anything not fully understood by science is magic

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Yes, and since we'll never have understood everything there will always be magic :)

[–] FuglyDuck 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"isn't it spooky how all the evidence just ups and dissapppears when you look at it?!"

[–] Kintarian 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

That experiment made my brain hurt

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[–] wabafee 9 points 1 day ago

Just put Pastafarianism

[–] FlyingSquid 31 points 2 days ago (15 children)

Philosophically, that's true. But I understand putting it in the religion column for the purpose of statistics. And 'none' and 'atheist' are two different possible answers. You can have no religion but believe very fervently in a god of your own conception.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (8 children)

That sounds more like "Other" than "None".

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[–] mechoman444 19 points 2 days ago (14 children)

Atheism is not a religion or worldview.

Atheism is the lack of a belief in a god or God's.

Many atheists including myself adhere to the statement of simply being unconvinced that there is a God or having no credible evidence to indicate a God's existence.

Maybe the form we were filling out legitimately needed that information but typically outside of a very specific set of data. I don't see why any form would ever ask you what your religion or lack of religion might be.

[–] Badeendje 3 points 1 day ago

In the medical world plenty of religions forbid certain things.. like blood transfusions. I can't really think of other places but I'm sure there are other legitimate use cases.

But I usually just trike out stuff that is irrelevant. If they seem it relevant they can press the issue and explain why.

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[–] CaptPretentious 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm fine with it on like a drop down or a form. No need to make things needlessly complicated. It's basically 'none' except it's clear. 'none' could be misleading, atheist is exact.

[–] Kintarian 5 points 1 day ago

Doesn't really bother me. I just thought it was kind of strange. Now that I've seen some of the responses here, I'm realizing that things are a little more complex than I thought, so I need to adjust some of my opinions.

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