Re: A bunch of oxymorons?
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 18, 2001, 20:36 |
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Christian wrote:
>
>Dennis Paul Himes wrote:
> >
> > Christian Thalmann <cinga@...> wrote:
> > > I took the test at www.selectsmart.com/religion at
> > > scored a 100% match on Secular Humanism, as expected.
> >
> > Oddly enough, even though I'm a strong atheist (as those of you who
> > have seen by webpages know), Atheism came in third:
> >
> > 1. Secular Humanism (100%)
> > 2. Unitarian Universalism (96%)
> > 3. Atheists and Agnostics (78%)
>
>Contrarily to common thought, not having a God doesn't immediately make
>you a plain Atheist. If you recognize the Human Rights as a fundamental
>set of ethics, you're a Humanist. Welcome to the club.
Are people using "atheist" for "non-religious"? I've always been told that
being an atheist means that you believe there's no God or gods, nothing more
and nothing less.
BTW, I scored a 100% for "Mainstream to Liberal Protestan", quite expectedly
for a member of the Swedish Covenant Church I guess.
Andreas
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