A modest proposal... Atheism is/is not a worldview.

[guacamole]

Granted, I have been busy, and therefore my NOMA thread was orphaned--and it looked like it was dead anyway.

But, dear friends, perhaps we could prevent the "Atheism is/is not a world view" fungus from growing in every thread.

I propose three things:

1. First, Christians and other theists can stop trolling the Atheists at every step.
2. Second, Atheists can stop barking at the dog whistle.
3. Third, use this thread as the official Atheism is/is not a world view. Quarrantine, if you will.

[Boxing Pythagoras]

There is far less suggestion of baby-eating than the thread title led me to believe would be here...

[Sparko]

There is far less suggestion of baby-eating than the thread title led me to believe would be here...

Didn't you atheists give up baby-eating for Lent?

[firstfloor]

Didn't you atheists give up baby-eating for Lent?

I don't.

[Sparko]

I don't.

well the orthodox atheists think you are a heretic so I wouldn't expect you to.

[Boxing Pythagoras]

Didn't you atheists give up baby-eating for Lent?

Only on Fridays. Obviously, Saturn's day requires the appropriate amount of baby-eating, year round.

[guacamole]

Only on Fridays. Obviously, Saturn's day requires the appropriate amount of baby-eating, year round.

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[seer]

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Gross!

[Leonhard]

Gross!

Indeed, though it's Goya's famous portrayal of Saturn eating his own son. I saw it myself when I was in Madrid several years back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son

[Leonhard]

A worldview can be atheistic, but atheism itself isn't a worldview.

You need more to hang your hat on than simply the belief that God doesn't exist.

Atheism itself is not a worldview. That's clear to most of the sensible atheist's, and was clear to me when I was an atheist. You have all sorts of groups that tend to be atheistic, you've got the "original" four horseman (Dawkins, Dennet, Hitchens and Harris) brandTM atheism. This later fed into various other groups. Most of the latest generation of feminists are atheists of one type or another. You have the Atheism+ movement. You have Humanists. Pearlists. Nihilistic trolls hanging around 4chan, 7chan, 8chan, 420chan... You have anarcho-libertarian objectivist atheists, who frankly don't seem that different from their Christian counterpart, except they like porn.

In the end you have all sorts of groups with intersectional goals for what they want in society, though the various groups themselves have little in common politically. I happen to know that feministic atheists tend to distance themselves far from the rhetoric of say Dawkins.

[robrecht]

... You have anarcho-libertarian objectivist atheists, who frankly don't seem that different from their Christian counterpart, except they like porn. ...

The Christian anarcho-libertarian objectivists like porn but the anarcho-libertarian objectivist atheists don't?

[Leonhard]

The Christian anarcho-libertarian objectivists like porn but the anarcho-libertarian objectivist atheists don't?

You got the wrong order, though it was a long sentence.

[robrecht]

You got the wrong order, though it was a long sentence.

Beware of noninflected languages.

[shunyadragon]

Didn't you atheists give up baby-eating for Lent?

Did Christians give it up after the Crusades?

[Trout]

I gave up spell check for Lunt.