• CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    It’s easier to group it up as a religion for information purposes, the amount of atheists are relevant if someone’s researching which religions people believe in.

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      8 months ago

      Not parent poster, but I don’t think that’s what they were getting at.

      Atheists are often generalized in the same way one might make generalizations about Catholics; the problem is that, while Catholics share a common set of beliefs and values (generally) based on doctrine and scripture, atheists don’t necessarily have anything in common about their beliefs or values, aside from an absence of theistic belief.