The Impaler's Wall

[Will Linden]

   On the other hand, I have had atheists try to explain away the 
lack-of-evils in real-world atheist societies by claiming that Communism 
is "really" a religion. Does this mean that atheism and secular 
humanism are?

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, RJLipkin at aol.com wrote:

> Mr.  Linden writes:
>
> There is no religion of "Paganism".  "Pagans" are defined by what they are
> NOT. (And as a poster on Magicknet said,  "I might as well call myself  Not Tom
> Mix."
>
>
>        Forgive  me, I've been paying only a cursory attention to this
> thread, but does the  above remark apply to "atheism" also? One often hears that
> atheism (like  secularity allegedly ) is just another religion.  Accordingly,
> when  atheists or secularists insist on a religiously-free public square, they
> are  really advocating that their "religions" should dominate the public  square
> to the exclusion of Christianity. But if "Paganism" should not count  as a
> religion, it would seem that neither  atheism nor secularity should count as a
> religion?
>
> Bobby
>
> Robert  Justin Lipkin
> Professor of Law
> Widener University School of  Law
> Delaware
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