• He's a corporate shill
• He's been completely ineffective
• You never hear anything he's done that is helpful to the common person
• He's not progressive
• He'll hold back and any all real reform and progress
• He has been silent as Trump rapes the USA
• He's a DINO
• He fails to help progressives get elected
• He fails to help progressives be progressive

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This is true but has nothing to do with this discussion. You’re probably also more likely do die by choking on a bat that accidentally flew into your mouth.

Was only sharing that, if you must live in fear, then live in fear of the more appropriate things...

Maybe if you mean as in birth-control...

I lived around bats the majority of my life. Shit does happen, but they're not out to get you. You're far more likely to get bit by a dog or hit by a car.

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If you don't mess with them, they are highly unlikely to mess with you...

bat shit is actually very, very good fertilizer...

Bats are a good thing... why would anyone complain?

And to keep up the great job!

I don't know... that starts to look an awful lot like work.

Follow the money... this is floor sweepings that they can turn into profit or something of that nature.

And I'm saying it doesn't because it (and the agnostic) aren't religions.

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So do you understand why I would group your set of beliefs on divinity in the same category as other sets of beliefs on the subject?

I understand what you are saying and I'm telling you that you are patently wrong. Atheist has a very simple meaning. The only thing it tells you is that the person does not believe in any gods. Are you aware that there are Buddhist atheists? The Buddhist part is essential to knowing what their belief system might be. In my case, if you were to ask of my belief system, I would tell you that it most closely aligns with secular humanism. Without that piece of information, the only thing you know about me is that I don't believe in any gods. You might also find it interesting to know that I was the president of a church - as an 'out' atheist. Saying that atheism is a religion is like saying that bald is a hair color. They may often be proximal, but they are very distinct things.

You may well be delusional, but I have absolutely no reason to be offended. That would be silly.

That’s agnosticism.

There is an element of agnosticism involved, but they are separate. Atheist simply means that one does not believe in any gods. Agnosticism/Gnosticism would be a statement about certainty any god(s) existing or not existing. One could be a theist and agnostic.

Without actual evidence, I don't believe anyone go claims to be gnostic regardless of whether they are theist or atheist.

But you also positively assert all known God’s don’t exist?

I positively assert that I do not believe in any of the thousands of possible gods that have been proposed as none of them have compelling evidence.

I further assert that I'm not that different from the vast majority of theists (those who believe in one or more gods). The theist has some set of gods that they believe exist and that all of the other possibilities do not exist. I just take a step further and don't believe their god(s) exist, either.

So you believe that any potential deity is fundamentally unknowable by humans?

No. I don't try to make any kind of super-natural claims. I only state that I have seen no compelling evidence that any gods exist and therefore I do not believe in them. Could a god exist, including with unknown evidence, that hasn't been discovered? Sure... science makes new discoveries all of the time. My expectation, even then, is that it will simply be something sufficiently advanced and/or obscure that we just don't recognize it. I would remain very skeptical of any attempts to describe it as super-natural.

Make you a deal... he can have it built if he is entombed there while still alive. Thirty days after death it gets torn down and a lone thistle bush gets planted.

I’ve heard Christians say it’s “not a religion, it’s a relationship”

I've heard Christians say a lot of stupid shit... that's not an argument for or against anything.

Even in the context of made-up religions, pastafarianism and Cthulu cultism are sill religions. Atheism is not, in any way whatever, a religion. It's like calling a lilly-pad a fish.

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