On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 21:46:52 -0300, "M. McLeod" <mycloud at chebucto.ns.ca>
wrote:
>I missed that "atheism is a faith" bit the first time I looked. Can't
>agree with you there. To have faith it has to be in something and an
>atheist believes in nothing.
Nobody "believes in nothing". Atheist believe in a material universe
which is either eternal or arrose through "natural causes" (whatever
that means in the context). They believe in Occam's Razor.
What is a religion? I'd say a set of beliefs about the origins of the
universe, who's running the show, what happens when we die. Atheists can
make positive statements about all these questions.
