An interesting article

[Kerdy]

I read this article and can't say I really disagree with what the authors view point.  I wanted to share it with you all and see how you feel about this.

For a theist there’s nothing quite like watching an atheist get an intellectual walloping from a preacher. There’s just something apocalyptic about it, and it most easily occurs when the atheist tries to chop up religion to irrelevancy without realizing that he is himself awfully religious.
 
It happened again recently at the Cambridge Union debating society when former Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams took on the best known name in contemporary atheism, Richard Dawkins. They were debating whether religion has a role in the 21st century.

www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/03/17/sorry-but-atheism-is-religion/?intcmp=obnetwork#ixzz2OAt3oO99

[Asteriktos]

Two sides to the same coin... ? 

[TheTrisagion]

Such debates are entertaining spectacles, but I don't believe that they ultimately are of any use.  I ended up defaulting to agnosticism when protestantism no longer made sense.  I came back to Christianity when I discovered Orthodoxy because it was something that made sense to me. It wasn't something someone could argue me into, it is something that must be internalized and hearing the tired old arguments of both sides doesn't really do that.

[Cyrillic]

I don't see how debates like these can be spiritually edifying.

[Kerdy]

I was asking about the article.

[TheTrisagion]

Whether atheism is a "religion" largely comes down to semantics.  I think it is less controversial to say that it is a worldview which is in direct opposition to the Christian worldview.  Atheism can certainly be couched in religious terminology, but the argument that goes on between atheists and religious persons over whether atheism is in itself a religion is an argument over how you define the word religion.  I think the author fails to identify that in his article.

[Kerdy]

Whether atheism is a "religion" largely comes down to semantics.  I think it is less controversial to say that it is a worldview which is in direct opposition to the Christian worldview.  Atheism can certainly be couched in religious terminology, but the argument that goes on between atheists and religious persons over whether atheism is in itself a religion is an argument over how you define the word religion.  I think the author fails to identify that in his article.

Good point, thank you!  I tend to define it in the same way I do all other world religions, but that's me.  I can't speak for the author.

[Opus118]

I read this article and can't say I really disagree with what the authors view point.  I wanted to share it with you all and see how you feel about this.

For a theist there’s nothing quite like watching an atheist get an intellectual walloping from a preacher. There’s just something apocalyptic about it, and it most easily occurs when the atheist tries to chop up religion to irrelevancy without realizing that he is himself awfully religious.
 
It happened again recently at the Cambridge Union debating society when former Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams took on the best known name in contemporary atheism, Richard Dawkins. They were debating whether religion has a role in the 21st century.

www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/03/17/sorry-but-atheism-is-religion/?intcmp=obnetwork#ixzz2OAt3oO99

Although I think atheism is a faith (and often a blind one by its participants - in my mind), I did find the article informative.

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