I'm not even Catholic, but I find this ironic and comical.

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IT'S SPELLED ATHEIST.

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I think that Atheism sprung up from bad feelings from the Inquisition and oppressive nature of the Church, not its sorry excuses for "schools".

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Wherever people perceive tyranny to be rampant, a champion arises to challenge it. Its kinda common for this to happen.

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Teenagers hardly understand what it means to be Atheist, Catholic, or the like.

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Isn't what is means to be atheist just expanding "not believing in any religion but one" to "not believing in any religions at all"   ?

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Quote: from Clouse227 at 7:25 pm on Aug. 27, 2008

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Wherever people perceive tyranny to be rampant, a champion arises to challenge it. Its kinda common for this to happen.

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Before schools though no one realized what tyranny was.

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Ill admit, being able to give an action a word or conceptual meaning, does make it easier to think of and act on.

Still, people, on the most base level can separate emotions into simply good and bad.

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Quote: from negligently at 7:20 pm on Aug. 27, 2008

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I think that Atheism sprung up from bad feelings from the Inquisition and oppressive nature of the Church, not its sorry excuses for "schools".

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Note I said Atheism as we know it, meaning the logical arguments that reinforce it. By the way, logical arguments regarding theology came from a Dominican monk.

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Doesn't change my thoughts. It doesn't even really affect them.

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But whether they like it or not, there is a good chance without the Catholic Church Athiesm as we know it today might not have even existed. Primarily, in the Medieval Ages Charlemagne made a series of schools which did help with general intelligence but the Church later funded larger schools for the best scholars to gather at; universities, and since they were privately owned, the Universities had the freedom to develop philosiphy as they wished. While athiesm didn't spring out instantly from this, this started the chain reaction to freedom of religion(or lack there of) and you owe it to the religious entity you hate most.  

I'm not even Catholic, but I find this ironic and comical.

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Atheism has always existed.

It existed well before Catholicism and will exist well after it.

Post edited at 11:23 pm on Aug. 27, 2008 by Takinam

Post edited at 6:25 am on Aug. 30, 2008 by Alabamarama

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IT'S SPELLED ATHEIST.

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Quote: from TheLastMagister at 2:18 pm on Aug. 28, 2008

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I find this ironic and comical.

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Atheism is knowing, absolutely positively, that there is no god. If you are not 100% sure that there is no god, then the farthest you can go is being agnostic.

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Atheism is knowing, absolutely positively, that there is no god. If you are not 100% sure that there is no god, then the farthest you can go is being agnostic.

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Not really. What you're describing is "hard" or "positive" atheism. Atheism itself is simply the disbelief in a deity. That's it. You can be an atheistic agnostic, you can be a "soft" atheist ("I disbelieve in the existence of a deity" rather than "there is no God"), etc. All are entirely valid forms of atheism.

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