[102848] in Cypherpunks
RE: Democracy... (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew James Gering)
Wed Sep 16 19:45:50 1998
From: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>
To: "Cypherpunks (E-mail)" <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 15:07:37 -0700
Reply-To: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>
> Try pantheism. If one fundamentaly believes that god does not
> exist, which clearly involves faith, then yes it is a religion.
Then I guess you could say that pantheism is an atheist religion, as
opposed to a theist religion.
My nice definition of atheism is reason over faith, science over
mysticism, basically an anti-religion. While that may be etymologically
unjustified, it does accurately reflect the views of the majority of
people I know who call themselves atheist, myself included.
Notice my brackets:
a- (without) + [theos (god) + ismos (practice or doctrine)]
not
[a- (without) + theos (god)] + ismos (practice or doctrine)
> By your view an agnostic can't be religion
No, and it's not, it's like standing in the doorway of a religion, not
sure whether to enter or leave, perhaps practicing but not believing.
Such indecisiveness annoys me, but it accounts for the majority of the
population.
Matt
