Atheist Meme of the Day: Religion Is Not Just a Story

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Today’s Atheist Meme of the Day, from my Facebook page. Pass this on; or don’t; or edit it as you see fit; or make up your own. Enjoy!

Religion is not simply a story that helps us frame our experience. If it were simply a story, believers wouldn’t get so upset when atheists argue that it isn’t true. Pass it on: if we say it enough times to enough people, it may get across.

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Atheist Meme of the Day: Religion Is Not Just a Story
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4 thoughts on “Atheist Meme of the Day: Religion Is Not Just a Story

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    It does help some people frame their experiences.
    In fact, any belief system (even Science. Yes, yes, I know, blasphemy :o) helps frames anyone’s experiences so long they encounter it at some point in their lives.

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    how is science a “belief system”? Unless you want to start aruging solipcism, that’s a pretty silly thing to say.
    As for religion being a story, that’s quite true and each theist picks which parts are important/true.

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    Some people flip out when you call Harry Potter a “just a story”, or Star Trek. There are other people who, due to their own obsessions, imagine these to be grand conspiracies against civilization itself (either communist in the later case, or real witch craft in the former). Nothing people place excessive value on, whether its negative or positive values, is “just a” or “merely a”, you are still an idiot of you get violently upset over either their existence, or someone complaining about them.
    Getting bloody upset, though not violently so, about people being that damn stupid, on the other hand…

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