u_crank,
you did not accept when I said atheism is not a belief, atheists do not have a dogma they beolieve in and want to spread.
Half an hour ago I got a mail by a board-member, and he sent me a
. By combining exerpts from several interviews and TV docus, by going from Carl Sagan over David Attenborough to Sam Harris and several others whose names were unknown to me, it sends spotlights from different directions at what atheists are about. There are many remarkable sentences being said, many of them worth to be picked and get quoted, but why should I do that when you can have it all.
Calm and reasonable. And right on the mark.
Now tell me, u_crank or anyone else, that atheism is a "belief", is dogmatic, is a religion, or whatever!
There is a bitter Irish joke, I read. A man gets stopped by a street patrol and asked: "Are you catholic or protestant?" The man says: "I am atheist." The patrol asks: "Okay, but are you a
catholic or a
protestant atheist?"
Consider how many cosmologic and creation myths and cults there are, how many religions, gods and goddesses, mythologies, traditions. Obviously, since there are so many and all claiming infallability, some of them must be wrong. Do you, do I, do we believe in most or even just some of them?
- "We are all atheists. Some of us just go one god further."
P.S. And a random find, when watching that video I stumbled over
which adresses the often made claim, also in this forum, that without religion there is no morality, and that only religion can be the source of absolute morality. - Absolute morality? Think twice before wanting that.