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Originally Posted by willravel
You ruined the humor! It was funny that they equated atheism with satan worshiping, becuase both are independantly considerd by many Christians to be the opposite of their religion.
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It's an interesting aspect of language in that it doesn't work like math when it comes to opposites. Because of the language we use to express it, an idea or a word can have more than one opposite without those opposites being equivalent to each other.
In this case, however, devil worship isn't really the opposite of Christian belief. Within the framework of Christian belief, worshiping the devil would mean the Christian conception of the devil as a fallen angel who presides over hell, which means accusing someone of devil worship assumes an acceptance of the Christian model of existence.
The woman seems to believe that there are people who accept the Christian model of the universe, yet don't belief in a supreme being.
I find that amusing.