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		User23 on Nov 4, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shinzo Abe's Assassination > You're confusing atheism for a religion. Atheism is a religion. Atheists observably claim to have achieved gnosis. It’s agnosticism that is an absence of belief.

amazingman on Nov 4, 2023 [–]

Agnostic atheism is a form of atheism. Atheism isn't a religion. It's not even a belief. It's just a lack of a specific kind of belief. Are there gnostic atheists? Sure. But even that is just a belief, and not a religion.

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