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(also responding to a few posts after that one)
On the other hand, I've got a problem with Atheists who don't regard it as a belief system. Atheism is the belief that God does not exist. It may be impossible to prove that God exists, but it's equally impossible to prove that he doesn't. Claiming otherwise is arrogance.
I should clarify that statement by pointing out that I classify myself as a firm Atheist. It's going to take a long post to explain that in more detail, but it's late here and I'll leave it to tomorrow.
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I don't see it. It's not a belief so much as it's a non-belief. I don't believe in many things that aren't real. That doesn't mean that I have a belief system of disbelief for every single one of them. It's a negative, not a positive. To say that a person believes in the non-existence of god is saying that they spend enough time after coming to the realization that it's not real to continue caring enough about it to have a belief.....
On second thought, that does sound like most atheists.
I missed the Scrabtrap argument. Here's your answer: It's because you people won't leave us alone. Religious people try to constantly legislate their beliefs so that we all have to live under their flawed , and often rather silly sense of morality. If they weren't constantly spouting off about how their way of life is the only good one, and trying to force that way of life on us I guarantee you we would relax about it. At least, this is true in America.