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.

  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 hours ago

    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

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      6 hours ago

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

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        2 hours ago

        You’re just wrong, as I explained

        It’s amazing how often Jesus freaks will assert they know about other groups and then get their information 110% wrong because they only learned what their in group says about them