"Religion" comes from the Latin word "religare" which means "to bind". It basically means something to which someone is devout to. We tend to think of religion as the worshiping of a deity and that athesim is the antithesis of religion, but this is not necessarily so. Religion is merely a set of beliefs or a worldview. In this regard atheism shares many attributes to religion:
*They both revolve around a central figure whose births are celebrated. For Christians its Jesus, for atheists its Charles Darwin.
*They both have their preachers to preach their gospel. For atheists it's people like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, etc.
*As with all religions, non-believers are treated like heretics.
*They both require faith. Yes even evolution requires faith. It remains a theory and the changing of one kind into another kind, as Darwin described, has never been observed in nature or recreated in the laboratory. And let's face it, none of us where there at the begging.
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*They both revolve around a central figure whose births are celebrated. For Christians its Jesus, for atheists its Charles Darwin.
*They both have their preachers to preach their gospel. For atheists it's people like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, etc.
*As with all religions, non-believers are treated like heretics.
*They both require faith. Yes even evolution requires faith. It remains a theory and the changing of one kind into another kind, as Darwin described, has never been observed in nature or recreated in the laboratory. And let's face it, none of us where there at the begging.
More to come...
