Atheists start their own religion.

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Article synopsis: The author draws comparisons between religion and evolution. He does this by making the claim that evolution has rituals, (specifically holidays) icons, (referring to some of Darwin's hair on display at the Natural History Museum, London.) and dogma.


Evolution is not a religion. Websters defines religion as

“1. The service and worship of God or the supernatural

2. A personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices.”

Religion deals with the supernatural, religion is not science.

Evolution is based on the Scientific Method. It has been validated by hundreds of years of empirical evidence as well as peer review. Accurate predictions have been made based off the theory of evolution and its processes and effects are visible today. Its evidence originates from a myriad of biological disciplines and all of those disciplines independently and unanimously confirm the theory.

Evolution is a valid scientific theory, it does not require faith to “believe in” and it has never invoked a supernatural explanation for any of its components. Evolution is science. No more discussion should be required on this subject.

The God of the Atheist

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Some people's idea of god is different than the Author's. That is to say, some people have an idea of god that does not include the bit about a benevolent father figure doling out eternal torture. Those people are committing idolatry. Atheists do the same thing except their model of god is malevolent, they then reject that god.

It should be pointed out that there are a lot of reasons why different atheists are atheists. One, for instance, may reject a personal god for the want of any evidence of that god. Or perhaps one simply disagrees with the tenets of every major religion. Perhaps another does not care about the existence of god. At any rate, trying to pigeon-hole an entire theological philosophy into one specific stereotype is a bit silly.

Personally, I do find the god of the Abrahamic religions to be malevolent. Considering the constant threat of eternal damnation and the specific acts of genocide carried out in his name. How does one rationalize genocide? It is malevolent. Even if you you spent your entire life doing good, wiping out an entire race of people is evil. That is just one example of the evil committed by the god of the bible. Even if the rest of the sixty six books contained nothing but love and mercy, genocide is well worth rejecting the god of the bible.

This argument is irrelevant however, considering that atheists typically do not affirm the existence of a personal god. It would probably behoove the author to establish the existence of god before we concern ourselves about his moral character.

An instance of genocide in the bible.