ghst:
since herd mentality is also present in atheism,yes it's a religion,it's your choice,which one you wanna follow,to me religion should' ve been a personal belief, people follow a particular religion because of the people that surrounds them e.g a child that grows up In a Christian home will go on to become an atheist when he departs to college because he will be surrounded by atheists unless he has a concrete belief

talktonase:
Isn't obvious...

Okworigeorge:
. will you say same about an Atheist? that he'll change after leaving for college?

ghst:


it's possible like I said it depends on how much trust he holds in his belief,he could change depending on the influence the college-if dominated by Christians- can have in his life,besides colleges are mostly dominated by atheist,that will be near impossible unless he's faced with a life-changing encounter.

Okworigeorge:
this I where u get it wrong, an Atheist lack that belief

Niflheim:
@okworigeorge,

He who believes that his shirt brings goodluck, is simply "SUPERSTITIOUS"!!!

ghst:


they believe they are their own gods nd there's no other one that's belief

Okworigeorge:
there is...belief as used in my OP simply means religious faith

ghst:


confidence,belief same thing to me

ghst:


they believe they are their own gods nd [/b]there's no other one that's belief[/b]

Okworigeorge:
I was going through a friend's FB wall and noticed that under his religious views, he wrote Agnostic.

ScepticalPyrrho:
The bolded is your reply.

Religious views! Not religious affiliations.

OP, if I don't subscirbe to any of the world's, numerous religions, what am I?

Okworigeorge:
u still won't be an atheist

ScepticalPyrrho:
What if I don't believe that God exists for fact?

ghst:
since herd mentality is also present in atheism,yes it's a religion,

akintom:

And who's the Shepherd of atheists?

Okworigeorge:
such persons are still not atheist if they believe in the afterlife...even if u are not a follower of any known religion, u still not be an atheist. u know y? because atheism is from the heart.I don't follow any religion cos I don't know which is the true religion, is quite different from I don't follow any religion because I know there is no God, the afterlife e.t.c

ScepticalPyrrho:
You read my comment wrong. I said "what if I don't believe that such a thing as God exists."

ghst:


diagoras

Okworigeorge:
u still wont be an Atheist

Okworigeorge:
u still wont be an Atheist

akintom:

Sorry boy, you don't know the meaning of herd effect.

ScepticalPyrrho:
Ok. Your opinion doesn't change the meaning of the word atheism.
Just as your believe in a god's existence doesn't make it exist in reality.

matrix600:
What are you saying, any person that lacks belief in God /Gods/Deity is an Atheist. Unless you want to redefine the meaning of the word.

It is the belief in a deity and the lack of, that separates Theism and Atheism. They are opposites.

ScepticalPyrrho:
Ok. Your opinion doesn't change the meaning of the word atheism.
Just as your believe in a god's existence doesn't make it exist in reality.

matrix600:
What are you saying, any person that lacks belief in God /Gods/Deity is an Atheist. Unless you want to redefine the meaning of the word.

It is the belief in a deity and the lack of, that separates Theism and Atheism. They are opposites.

Okworigeorge:
no you're wrong... Atheism is not only the lack of belief in a deity cos there are some religion that don't believe in any god but still believe in reincarnation/afterlife, do u call such people Atheist too?