Reply #38: Atheism is most certainly an institution -- and a belief [View All]

[IrateCitizen]

Sure, it may be a rather disorganized institution, but it is still one nonetheless, IMHO.

And despite what all those of you who use your broad brush to dismiss all religion as "fairy tales" may say to the contrary, atheism is a belief system, not a "freedom of thought". How? Because atheism depends on the belief of an absence of God, much in the same way that most organized religions depend on the belief of a presence of God.

Actually, the only ones who have it straight with regards to scientific principles are the agnostics. You cannot prove scientifically that God does or does not exist. The agnostics acknowledge this reality, as center to their belief system, and therefore do not trouble themselves with it.