Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!decvax!decwrl!rhea!marvin!isbell From: isbell@marvin.DEC (Chris Isbell ) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Is atheism a religion? Message-ID: <6365@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 06:21:06 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.6365 Posted: Wed Mar 21 06:21:06 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Mar-84 01:32:47 EST Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 16 [Mystics line] > >Is Atheism a religion? The dictionary defines a religion as somehow >worshipping God. It seems to me that an atheist takes a similar leap >of faith when he claims that there is no God. > >Steve Tynor What about Buddhism? There is no God in Buddhism. (There is also no non-God either.) It would be very difficult to argue that it is not a religion. Chris Isbell. (...decvax!decwrl!rhea!marvin!isbell)