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Originally Posted by filtherton
McDuffie, how do you define belief system? It may be a pretty simple system, but it is what it is. If atheism can't possibly be a belief system, than what is it?
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What is it? It's a non-belief.
A good analogy might be this:
Let's say you are on a bus with union carpenters, union electricians, union brick masons, union plumbers. You and couple other guys on the bus do not possess a blue collar skill, neither are you union members.
Well, if you are not skilled union workers what are you? You don't fit in their neat categories. Just like atheists.
The carpenters can talk about carpentry, the electricians can talk about electrical work etc. What are you guys going to talk about? Non-carpentry? Non-electrical work?