> I think you can argue that Nazism, and classic Bolshevik communism > were religions. For instance Hitler and Gobbels made an active effort > to replace Christianity with Nazism as the official religion. And > Communism was a religion. > > I suspect that if you scratched a fanatic, you'd find religion.
That would require a bit of a stretch in terms of how you define religion, but certainly Dawkins is defining it as a belief in a supreme God. I'd certainly disagree that fanaticism is the same as religion in that respect, which is the basic argument I was making. There is a difference in terms of following a certain creed or set of rules "religiously" and calling something a religion. If you define communism as religion, then basically you are considering atheists as religious fanatics as well. Which I doubt most atheists would agree with. ;-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:308349 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
