Appeal to Synonyms: Just Say No!

Rebuttal By Synonym™ is too often nothing more than a rhetorical gimmick.

We're on a Spirituality Forum talking about things like religion and faith. [Not my words in these definitions...]

Faith: a strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.

Religion: the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or Gods.

Faith [defined above] is not equivalent to "faith" in this sentence: "I have faith in Colchester United's ability to haul themselves up and out of the relegation zone." Discussion of that "faith" belongs on a sports forum.

Religion [defined above] is not equivalent to "religion" in this sentence: "Stamp collecting is not the religion it once was in the era before electronic mail." Discussion of that "religion" belongs on a philately forum.

@fmf said
Rebuttal By Synonym™ is too often nothing more than a rhetorical gimmick.

We're on a Spirituality Forum talking about things like religion and faith. [Not my words in these definitions...]

Faith: a strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.

Religion: the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling pow ...[text shortened]... was in the era before electronic mail." Discussion of that "religion" belongs on a philately forum.

Blantantly and unashamedly religious Atheists celebrating their sacred belief.
In fact they seemed to have reasoned "If you can't beat them, join them."
Or at least they imitate "religious" folk with Atheist "churches".

The godless church and the atheists taking the US by storm

YouTube&ab_channel=TheGuardian

Need more?

Inside the church without a God

YouTube&ab_channel=TheTelegraph

@sonship said
Blatantly and unashamedly religious Atheists celebrating their sacred belief.

@sonship said
Blantantly and unashamedly religious Atheists celebrating their sacred belief.

@FMF

Let such atheists come here to this forum and declare that they have a "religion" if that is the case, and let them argue why their "religion" is a religion in the same way as your religion is a religion.

@FMF

Playing the "low integrity" card on me doesn't do much for your denial that atheists are imitating religion as much as they please in some places.

@sonship said
Sounds like a rather self important ultimatum. Are you suggesting they need
to get your permission to start "churches" and be sanctimonius about thier godless relgious services?

@sonship said
Playing the "low integrity" card on me doesn't do much for your denial that atheists are imitating religion as much as they please in some places.

@FMF


Intolerant much huh?

Better start a movement of intolerant anti-religious atheist agnostic/atheists (leaning sometimes toward deism).

@FMF

You need a few more quotation marks maybe.

Atheists in prison have argued that they are entitled to rights of other religious prisoners. The recognition that Humanism / Atheism is a religion. ACLU argues so.
That's the American Civil Liberties Union.

Do Atheist Prisoners Have Rights?

YouTube&ab_channel=FFRF

@sonship said
Intolerant much huh?

@sonship said
Atheists in prison have argued that they are entitled to rights of other religious prisoners. The recognition that Humanism / Atheism is a religion. ACLU argues so.

@FMF


Its obvious that you look down you nose at them as second class atheists.
LIke "More Atheistic Than Thou" self righteousness.

Let them come here and getr past you saying they want to have an atheist church and services absolutely imitating Bible Belt congregations.

You are sounding like the Pope already FMF.