we would also be talking about A WORLD WITHOUT ATHEISM, which is also a religion requiring a large measure of faith in the unseen
That would be all well and good except for that fact that it's bullshit and no amount of pissing & moaning will change that.
Atheism has:
Nothing. It is simply a descriptor for a person who answers "No" to the question "Do you believe in a god or gods?"
1) Its zealous heroes - R. Dawkins, Carl Sagan, etc.
So does Star Wars, the Olympics, and the Tea Party Movement. Are they also religions?
2) Zealous followers full of anger, bitterness, hatred, and emotionalism (just look at some of the responses here).
So Anger, Bitterness, and Hatred are inherent qualities of religion? That explains so much.
3) Strong beliefs - MACROevolutionism, "modified" Big Bang and other cosmological models, Abiogenesis, and many other completely unscientific and unprovable beliefs.
Yet not a single thing in that list has the slightest thing to do with atheism. In fact the are atheists who don't subscribe to a single one of those beliefs, and none are a prerequisite to disbelieving in a god or gods.
4) A political manifesto with directives such as "They (creationists) must be silenced", Steven J. Gould, Atheist, MACROevolutionist, Harvard Professor of Paleontology
Are you incapable of believing in your "god" without subscribing to the political beliefs of your co-religionists? Does the fact that Steven J Gould holds a certain opinion mean that every single other person who happens to disbelieve in a god must hold that same opinion?
5) Major fiascos from within like "Ida" and many others errors.
And what does any of that have to do with my disbelief in any god or gods?
