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theadvancedapes  ·  4120 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I'm Not An Atheist

    By it's very nature it doesn't have a function. Does the fact that I'm not on astronaut have a function? Does that fact that I don't believe in dragons serve a function? No.

I don't know if I agree. I mean, atheism's function seems clear to me - to organize and marginalize traditional religions. You can't compare that to not being an astronaut or not believing in dragons. If everyone in the world believed deeply in dragons without evidence... then not believing in dragons would all of a sudden have an important function.