> for your evidence of your baseless deity there's no evident reason to believe in deities, but the dogma that religion sprouted from is embedded in humans, and claiming otherwise, i.e saying that god definitely doesn't exist, is just disingenuous. atheists too are religious. the atheist binds himself to a creed as surely as any priest, his denial a kind of worship, his rejection a private liturgy. he clings to absence, calls it a liberation, yet clings all the same. in his need to flee from gods, he makes one of his own unfaith, a shadow cast by the very beliefs he spurns, a prayer he chants in the dark that he does not believe in. the atheist still bows, still swears, to the notion that there is no god, and he would think himself freed by such a thing. but belief is a snare, no matter its shape. it cages him even as he proclaims his freedom, binds him to the very notion he would banish from his soul.
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