When I speak about the "good ol' times of atheism" (I said it more like a joke, btw, but if you want to go on a serious line, I' ll follow)...
I think more about those people who revolted against the catholic empire and not against God. Atheism is a philosophy that was born in west as a response to the catholic understanding of God.
Simona25 said:
Also, atheists 'back then' (not all of them, of course) were men who used their heads a lot and their lack of belief was 'alive', by alive I mean that the question of God never left them alone. Those atheists still exists today and are not the ones that make an ideology or religion out of their lack of belief, but some of them are true seekers.
Simona25 said:
There is no difference between a christian with a dead faith and an atheist who starts threads on CC and says "I'm an atheist. Ask me anything."
Simona25 said:
As if atheism was not the deprivation of something, but a religion of the absence of God. The atheism of these persons doesn't come from an interior struggle, but from a laziness of the soul (which can be sometimes translated with stupidity).
I don’t see atheism as being like a religion in any sense. Religions are typically easily identified by their adherent’s devotion to sacred texts, set dogmas, rituals, and the worship of a transcendent beings. Atheism possess none of these trappings.