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Old 10-23-2005, 04:44 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by senni
I think that whether atheism is a religion or not is not a fact, but rather a feeling, a personal way of understanding and living one's atheism, and therefore it is very subjective and relative to each individual.
I agree your opinion in the fact that religion can be defined in several ways. First, the belief in a god (or gods) or in a supernatural power which controls human destiny, in this way atheism is not a religion but if we define religion as a way of life, the atheism is a religion.
And I would like to say that atheism is a religious orientation (living without gods) so I think more that it's a religion.

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and it is in this sense that I tend to think that an atheist would be better suited to answer this question (for himself or herself only).
You said: "therefore it is very subjective and relative to each individual" so why do you say that atheist would better answer this question?
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