On 07/05/2006, at 10:40 PM, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote:
Charlie Bell wrote:
*wry smile* How can one be fundamentalist to a lack of belief?
By rejecting any possibility that God [or gods, or The Devil, etc]
exists.
So? Non-belief in the supernatural can't be "fundamentalist", there's
no scripture or dogma.
Yes, there are. "Das Kapital" and the dogma that there ain't no
such thing as
a Dog.
Still no. Lack of belief in x does not equal belief in not x. Active
disbelief in a god or gods is a belief, but it's not "dogma".
It might be a belief, it might even be
strident and loudly held, but it's a slightly different class of
belief.
No, it's not, and this belief may have killed more people than all
religions
put together - you missed this same discussion we had here about 6
months ago.
I've seen that argued before, and it's bunk. It's not the atheism
that killed people, it's the psychopaths in charge. In fact, the USSR
was not officially atheist at all.
Charlie
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