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Re:Should More of Us Be Moving to Live Near Friends? by bluGill on Saturday December 28, 2024 @10:37AM (#42531763)
Atheism has a large component of refute the existence of God, make practice of region hard for those who are religion and so on.

There is the I don't believe in God and I'm not interested in anything more. However there are a lot of vocal Atheists who have turned it into a religion with practices, rituals and doctrines around proving there is no God and thus I elevate that to a religion.

You can choose where you want to be.

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Re:Should More of Us Be Moving to Live Near Friends? by the_af on Saturday December 28, 2024 @11:12AM (#42532004)
You're describing a fictitious brand of atheism, one that I -- surrounded by friends and family who are atheists -- have never observed.

Atheists simply don't believe in any gods. Lowercase "gods", it's not exclusive to the Christian God, which a specific god we also don't believe exists.

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Re:Should More of Us Be Moving to Live Near Friends? by goodpoint on Saturday December 28, 2024 @10:47AM (#42531824)
> rituals and doctrines around proving there is no God

Please provide evidence to substantiate this claim.

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Re:Should More of Us Be Moving to Live Near Friends? by bluGill on Saturday December 28, 2024 @11:42AM (#42532217)
Their rituals involve quotes of Noam Chomsky or Richard Dawkins anytime region comes up. Noam Chomsky and/or Richard Dawkins wrote their doctrines which they accept without question.

Maybe that isn't you, but it exists.

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Re:Should More of Us Be Moving to Live Near Friends? by goodpoint on Sunday December 29, 2024 @09:07AM (#42540031)
This is not reddit nor 4chan.
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Re:Should More of Us Be Moving to Live Near Friends? by antifa on Sunday December 29, 2024 @01:37PM (#42541864)
> but it exists

A religion without gods can exist, and trying to prove God does not exist can be a hobby, but Atheism does not mean either of those concepts.

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