Life Here and There

I just read a news story about an atheistic group in Washington state that has placed a sign in the state capital building promoting atheism. The sign is located adjacent to a nativity scene also paid for by a private organizations, and both organizations obtained permits for their displays. You can read more about the story here.

I am not opposed to either display – we live in a nation that celebrates the freedom of speech as well as the freedom of worship, so either of these groups should be well within their rights to express their views in a public setting, especially seeing that they’ve gone through the appropriate measures to do so. I do, however, think that the action raises an issue about atheism that has to be dealt with by anyone who is wavering between theism (belief in a god) and atheism (belief in no god), and that is that atheism is a religion.

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