My, acivilised discussion on the web. What will happen next-- Armageddon?
Surely the atheist Stalin and the Christian Hitler were just extreme aborations of both belief systems and shows how hard it is to use labels --as HB implies.
I wonder if Gandhi or Madella were atheists or Christians?
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His religious observances included non-Hindu prayers and hymns. On the last day of a fast in 1933, for instance, he told his secretary, "Better fix up the plan for tomorrow. Dr. Ansari will read something from the Koran, we might have a Christian hymn and then our song of the true Vaishnava."*33 The tendency was particularly strong in regard to Islam. A visitor around 1920 recalled, years later: "Gandhiji's prayers included readings from the Gita and the Koran. To these were later added verses from the Bible and recitations from Parsi, Sikh, and Buddhist prayers, as well as the singing of hymns from various religions."*34
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Gandhi's Last Words | bfg-München
Perhaps neither.
For me my atheism is "I don't care, religion is just a silly primitive superstition." I rarely spend any time talking about it. I cannot understand how any same person can believe half the propositions of the world's faiths. (The three main ones seem incredibly
intolerant). Perhaps I have not eaten enough mushrooms --which I intend to do when I get old, just in case I have missed something.
As for atheism not having a belief system I am not so sure when I see sites like this
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