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In reply to the discussion: Chapel hill shooter was a 'militant atheist' who fantasised that religion would 'go away'. [View all]MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)(I should never post when it's late, so sorry)
I think I'm trying to be literal in saying that the Bible is no more the word of God than religions having faith when they act against it. The bible is not a book of faith, it's a book of rules, followed by an updated testament of Jesus parables. Some is carefully crafted scripture, leaving out entire contributors, due to their gospel.
Religion sure has privilege, but if one were an atheist, I think you'd eventually find that said atheist feels the a sort of faith without a sky being at the head of it.
Since it's so taboo to get into much GD discussion about atheism, I believe an entire unfolding discussion of who we are and why we exist would point to a qualitative methodology in the universe. To not pray every so often to a sky being and feel confident in that requires another kind of faith.
Maybe I should just go to bed.