Quote Originally Posted by mrdevious
Are you just convinced that my tendencies toward analytical explanations means I have no explorative philisophical side Polymerize? I wanted to explain atheism, so i did.
Not at all. I just found your definition of "proper atheism" to be amusing. It's a rather common problem for religions I suppose, to have an diseparate number of followers without a unified belief. "These people do not represent true fill-in-the-blank", they'll say to one another.
Christians intolerantly killed another homosexual? well, they weren't really christians then were they? Obviously, a proper christian would never do something like that. Such individuals are merely a stain on the good name of christianity.
So how do you separate the intolerant and illogical atheists from the remarkably humanist and loving individuals described in Breuk's post (for example)? Definition paints with a broad brush and bold strokes. And ultimately it still tells us nothing.
Individual belief always differs from doctrine. What does christianity mean to the christian? What does atheism mean to the atheist? Regardless, if you choose to pigeonhole yourself into a defined category, you can hardly be surprised when you get lumped in with the rest of those who do as well... can you?