Nietzsche - Atheist is a religion.

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I was chatting with my girlfriend about Nietzsche the other night and she mentioned that he believed atheism to be a religion as it requires something to be sacraficed i.e. the belief in God and an afterlife (one presumes).

Anybody else encountered this way of defining religion? And what's the counter argument?

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aitm · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 4:14 pm Post subject:

somewhat akin to Philosophy 101, it a tree falls etc.

If religion in part is to ask a sacrifice, but the sacrifice does not really need to be done, does the sacrifice have any meaning?

From the prophet end, the lion in the Narnia story, how can you be considered to have sacrificed yourself when all along you knew you were coming back to life?

Apply the same thought to Jesus. More like a fraud to me. IF a god exists, jesus didn't sacrifice a damn thing.

Atheism does not sacrifice anything except time spent in superstitious congregations mutually masterbating the menial minds of the minions.

OF course we do end up sacrificing time to spend in a cyber-world forum board screaming profanities at believers and anyone else who walk within shouting distance.
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josephpalazzo · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 4:17 pm Post subject:

Hit_me_up024 · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 5:37 pm Post subject:

atheism is not a religion or a belief its merely the lack of it

theist- person believing in one or many gods

the OPPOSITE

atheist- one believing in no superior being.
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Dawkadoodle · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 5:39 pm Post subject:

josephpalazzo · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:38 am Post subject:

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lumpymunk · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:05 pm Post subject:

Email her this.
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Tormentor · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:03 am Post subject:

emo samurai · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:03 pm Post subject:

Actually, Nietzsche said that religion is nihilistic sickness. The man wrote a book called "The Antichrist." If he thinks you're sacrificing anything by turning atheist, he thinks you're sacrificing sickness. According to him, that spiritual sickness is the only absolute evil, with the will to power being the only absolute good.
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Dawkadoodle · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:23 pm Post subject:

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