My point was it is "misleading" to posit it as such in this context as doing so suggests the same sense that individual religions are theistic belief ...
As in, if you don't disagree with the post I wrote to @"Hanover", I don't know why you interjected. If you do, you better quote what you disagree with...
The last line referred to the recent discussion in general. I may have misunderstood you as having something relevant to say with regards to the debat...
It's an element of his theory as I've said. An element that you appear, with all due respect, not to be familiar with beyond one line. And the salient...
Yes, as I said, that is an element of Marxist theory. One that he spends a tiny proportion of his writings on and that one line is all many people kno...
There has been militant anti-theism, for sure. And awful crimes have been committed against religious believers. But there seems to be some very confu...
You've just described a socioeconomic theory that doesn't require God. Hence if you read Capital, you'll find it's 99.9% socioeconomics and almost zer...
Clumsy thinking still. Communism, for example, is not an iteration of atheism in the way e.g. Judaism is an iteration of theism. Theism is a broader c...
Psychological insecurity which presents as intolerance maybe. In mixed and relatively open societies, I'd hypothesize that most atheists have an inner...
Tend to agree. E.g. Trump could dismantle neoliberal economic policies and replace them with populist ones and simultaneously make the gun situation m...
Standards have never been much of an obstacle where politics is concerned. What's needed is a "solution" that both sides can find something to love an...
I'm kind of with you on the first part but I reject the idea of accepting vs rejecting here in favour of creating vs being created. If your perfect wo...
This is another way of saying it's not necessarily desirable to focus on the good vs bad person division any more than it is to focus on the theist vs...
But what is a naturally good person? Nature doesn't create good and bad people; it creates biological strategies, which are then moulded by social con...
Ironically, it's just that sort of superficial view that robs the world of its mystery and beauty, reducing it to lazy categories and conceptual jars ...
:up: And maybe the final nail in the coffin of @"sime"'s bizarre thesis is the empirical reality that the US is at once one of the least atheist and t...
Also, it's progressives (more likely to be atheist) not conservatives (more likely to be religious) that tend to take up arms for sustainability and a...
"You only live once" isn't a metaphysical belief, it's a slogan embraced regardless of religious / metaphysical belief; in fact, probably because of i...
Yes, I think because the idea is that your behaviour does not change regardless. If you can say "I behave thus because it has value in itself", rather...
I'm not overly optimistic on that score. It's not so much about things to do but ways to think. We tend to like ideas that are under threat from some ...
America is more the exception than the rule in advanced democracies on that score. But yeah, I'm saying the categories themselves are destructively id...
At the most advanced levels, theists present a god so abstracted and atheists a physics so abstracted, there''s hardly more than terminology between t...
I gave up a long time ago trying to figure out what theists expected me to believe and what, therefore, I was supposed to not believe as an atheist. A...
And if someone wants to present a worldview in an OP, try this. That might be interesting. "a worldview is an ontology, or a descriptive model of the ...
I'll add that being apparently very cooperative in this way: as AS usually is, is nice, and he certainly comes across as a nice guy. But it has to be ...
The OP consisted of writing a list of five or six fairly unrelated categories, e.g. classical logic, pessimism etc., called doing that presenting a "w...
There was nothing philosophical about the OP, so I deleted it. (This is a pattern with AS in OPs and posts, which is why he's been suspended several t...
It's you who seems not to have read me. We may agree on that part, but this is the specific point that un took you up on and I also think is problemat...
:up: + A thread on the same topic would likely be merged anyway. It's fair to ask that your question be directly addressed here by whoever can address...
@"Agent Smith" Community A, Time 1: 50% of Crime is by members of X subgroup; 50% of Crime is by members of Y subgroup. X subgroup is socially dominan...
:up: ...+falsely generalised to a social interest. Crime prevention that's conceptualised in purely instrumental terms--low crime is good (+ points), ...
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