Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
by throw0101a on Monday March 29, 2021 @10:15PM
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> Concepts shouldn't be dependent on the language they're conveyed in, though.
Well:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
> So even if we accept his warped use of the term "worship", his claim that atheism doesn't exist still doesn't hold up.
It may be useful to go to the full source:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Water
* https://fs.blog/2012/04/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI
The key phrase is "day-to day trenches of adult life".
Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
by IHLayman on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:45PM
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> If I “worship” money or sex, no one would seriously say that makes me a “theist”.
The Greeks had a god of wealth that they worshipped, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutus. Furthermore, there is an entire page of sex/fertility deities on Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_love_and_lust_deities.
Maybe you are conflating theism with monotheism.
He also introduces a false dichotomy which equates "worship" with "theism". If I "worship" money or sex, no one would seriously say that makes me a "theist". So even if we accept his warped use of the term "worship", his claim that atheism doesn't exist still doesn't hold up.