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Comments by dr gordon burton


1. Atheism is a religion and you're as bad as the fundamentalists

Comment #82324 by dr gordon burton on October 26, 2007 at 4:05 am

Atheism is not a religion because it is not based on faith. Religion is based on faith. Faith by definition is belief with no evidence. Atheism is the understanding that there is no supernatural being because there is no evidence.
To be a fundamentalist can mean different things to different people (see wikipedia). An atheist could be called fundamentalist in that an atheist believes in the fundamental facts based on evidence not the same as a religious fundamentalist where there are no fundamental facts only what is written in a text by other people and religious dogma.