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yukimura: i dont find that argument to be compelling.
it seems to me that the only folk who claim atheism is a religion are themselves religious one way or another and so seem to be motivated by an inability to imagine the world as ordered differently from themselves. from this follows a compulsion to assimilate a category like atheism into itself, as a mirror image of itself, a religion without this god character.
well, it isnt.
there's no movement.
there's no organization.
there's no ritual. no liturgy.
no shared committments to anything.
there is no community.
there are just people who use the word to situate themselves in certain types of conversations, which unfold within particular contexts (like this.)
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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