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Why can’t religious people understand that atheism isn’t a religion?

It’s so annoying when they try to argue with you and say otherwise. I keep getting stupid theist on atheist YouTube channels leaving comments about how atheism is just another religion, trying to debate atheist and agostics. I don’t understand why they just can’t stay away from atheist channels, anyway. Like what are they doing here.

EmeraldJewel 7 Feb 14
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They can't help themselves. It's part of their mental illness. And yes, I absolutely believe that religious faith is an intentional mental illness.

Indeed it is.
It's a contagious mental illness.
Hell, look at the characters in the Bible.
Let's see...
Talking burning bush...
Attempted murder (sacrifice) of a son.
Climb a mountain to hear "God"

That's just a small handful of what I can remember right off the bat.
Sounds a lot like schizophrenia to me.

Not to mention that their gods sound like they have some sort of personality disorder like D.I.D

Lmfao!!! I like that you called it mental illness.

@EmeraldJewel I've been calling it a mental illness for a number of years now. I've also caught an awful lot of flack for doing that. My rationale is that religious faith is rooted in delusion. Delusion is a symptom of mental illness. Hence, religious faith is a mental illness.

@NeoXerops Their god has a whole host of character flaws. Let's see, serial genocide, extortion, passive/aggressive behavior, child abuse, and explosive anger issues. Gee, what's not to love?

@KKGator OR their Hebrew god is really only a copied version of "Anu" the blood-thirsty alien leader who came to earth to mine gold and genetically engineered humans by mixing their DNA with human apes, as told about in the Sumerian texts. They were written 2000 years before the Bible, and obviously copied, since the stories parallel the Bible ones, even with similar names.

The origins of human beings according to ancient Sumerian texts [ancient-origins.net]?

@KKGator it deserves to be called just that. Anybody that claim god is talking to them in their head has a problem.

@KKGator you nailed it

@KKGator you nailed it

@NeoXerops a illness for sure lol. The man attempting to murder his son was too much for me.

@EmeraldJewel Haha, absolutely.
But hey... I guess if the voices in your head tell you to do something...
Imagine if someone tried pulling this shit nowadays. That person would be in an asylum.

Let's not forget about the whole cutting of the dick skin thing...
That's definitely up there in terms of worst of the lot.

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Why can’t religious people understand that there is no god(s)?

I tink Bill Maher calls it "religiously insane." Even if he doesn't, I still like the term.

@SaintStephen accuracy!

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What is annoying is when they are given a proper definition and simply ignore it. They are sometimes simply incredulous, however many are simply purposely misleading. More specifically this is the apologetics group.

Yes, that’s very annoying.

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Because fuck learning definitions yo. Lack of belief isn't a belief, but they don't always seem to understand that sadly. It's more annoying when they tell you that being an atheist requires as much faith as any religion.....no....no it does not.

Lol your comment is priceless!!!

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If one is all about religion, then "leaving" or not believing must just be because of another religion. They can't imagine no religion. They must blame Satan or something. Just can't see that no gods means no magical beings at all--at least no deities.

Satan: the imagery invisible enemy adults blame when things are bad, just like children when they get in trouble.

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For the same reason they don't understand Atheists don't worship Satan, that we are for the most part very moral people. Ignorance of the willful variety.

Bad alleged gawds good alleged gotts magical thinking is mental illness when acted out upon Atheists or other cult victims

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It is insane to try to make sense of the insane. ...it is absurd to call their hairstyles equal to OUR BALDNESS. ...believers are unwilling to reason they are 99% Atheists and we are 100% Atheists. ...we have zero beliefs that Thor or YHWH exist what xian keeps Jehohvah on the same brain cell as Thor? Perhaps the paranoid thinking thunderbolts are magic ?

That is way to hard...you have been reading again!

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Why can't atheists understand that religion isn't a rational thought and people who subscribe to it should not be assumed to be operating rationally?

One of my faults, I guess. I think by now I should know they don’t know any better and I should know better and just ignore them.

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Don't the religious people kinda make a religion out of a lot of things? It just comes natural to them!

Whenever something big pops, somebody wants to make it into a religion, as in "Stranger In A Strange Land." Or a wack person like Ken Hamm making up his own, out of his own head. And we know many who have done that. The shame is the needy people drawn to those wackos.

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They're trolling.

Lol

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Religious leaders have convinced them so

Cult perpetrators

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They are so invested in their religion and have such low self esteem, because they only equate their self worth in terms of 'God loves me even though I'm unworthy."they cannot grasp that people can function without religion.

JimG Level 8 Feb 15, 2018

Low self esteem is an understatement. ...cult victims believe they deserve eternal burning of their flesh painfully and accept any version of the heaven bribes to mitigate such zero self worth

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Cause they need to think, that cause they were so brainwashed by whatever religion they were raised in that you need it in your life, if that makes sense

Hahaha! Desperate much!!!

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Because ignorance....

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I get annoyed with Government surveys that ask your religion and list Atheism as one of them. Thankfully we mostly now have the option of "No religion"

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Because the virtue of faith has been so deeply brainwashed into them, they can't believe that everyone doesn't live by it.

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Because the dogma if their religion dictates their entire life, religious people have no concept of the ability to think for themselves. So they have to have a religion.

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I totally, completely, absolutely, fully, comprehensively and overwhelmingly agree with you! If there is one thing that really blows wind up my skirt it is that comment from religionists. It shows that they understand neither religion nor atheism. And it's a put down that I have heard from religious people far too often.

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I stopped arguing with theists. It truly has become a no win scenario with them.

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Two main things: 1) they think in terms of belief so everything is a belief and 2) much of the point of religion is for tribal identity, not tenets. Religious people don't get that "none of the above" isn't simply another flavor of the same stuff they do and they don't get that atheists aren't this band of people that have meetings on how not to believe in God.

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It's much easier to say that they are opposit sides of the same coin, but they are not connected. With faith you follow your beliefs no matter what the evidence. With rationalism you change your beliefs based on the evidence.

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I suppose at least partially they have no other frame of reference.

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because they are religious!

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Most I think believe atheism is paganism. Cause some people have asked why I would believe in Satan and we surprised when I told them that that was a myth just like their religion.

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Thank you.

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