I am not stating that everyone else is incorrect. But, I am stating I am right about one particular thing: Science is not a religion. Anyone who believes otherwise clearly does not understand what religion is, or what dogma is, or what science is based on at all.
And Socrates might have felt differently if he was born nearly 2,300 years later. I respect Socrates, and the other great philosophers of Greece, but they were ignorant of nearly everything. They didn't even know what atoms were--but that can be argued. But, they certainly never widely accepted it.
And, according to Diogenes you're a waste of life. At least Diogenes was an awesome philosopher.
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Wait wait, how am I a troll? Because I have a point of view that completely trumps yours? Because mine is actually supported by the research thousands of years of accumulated knowledge and yours is essentially common sense?
Please, you're the troll.
Your trolling unintentionally because regardless of whose right or wrong, you felt the need to derail the thread with your walls of criticism about how if we aren't into black chicks we're mindless sheeple who can't break the bonds of society and achieve nirvana and infinite knowledge like superior beings, such as yourself.
Also your argument for why atheism isn't a religion is not very convincing. Partly because you struck me as an annoying prick who can't accept that his own beliefs might not necessarily be any "better" than someone else's, and if they are "better", then that doesn't necessarily make other beliefs unacceptable (there is a way you could have worded your posts to avoid this yet tell the same information).
The main reason I am not convinced, however, is because it seems as though atheism (and to a degree, Science) and religions seem to do almost the exact same ****. Both of them are just Man's way of determining where we came from, how things work, why things are the way they are, and general explaining phenomena.
There are some slight differences, however. Religions tend to also describe how one should live, and, to my knowledge, Atheism (and science) does not. Also, Atheism tends to be more based on research, and experimentation, and hard evidence whereas religions tend to be more based on faith.
I'll be honest, I am pretty uneducated in subjects of religion, including atheism (I'm also 17). For the most part I believe in Science and I'll blindly accept almost everything proven with math as fact, but I'm not willing to throw out what tiny shred of christian belief I have left until Science can reassure me I won't cease to exist when I die.
TL;DR: In a sense, atheism is a religion like Smash Bros is a fighting game.