Reply #21: Of course there's a holy writ and tradition to atheism

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It's called Alpha primate politics -- it's born in the blood. Just look at the howling atheists
on this board who need to think they understand everything. lol The assertion that you need to
have a written tradition or orthodoxy to be a religion is an arbitrary game rule put in place by
those who want to deny their orthodoxy. Any body of beliefs IS a belief system. When you assert
your narrow, defined views alone are the only right ones and any consideration of anything BEYOND
that is "religion", then you are yourself participating in an arbitrary belief system ... a preferred
belief, if you will. To say otherwise is to be either disingenuous or ill-advised.