How religions harm society. This can be done philosophically in general, historically, or with present day examples. I could see multiple different sessions on this, including dividing into regional phenomena on top of the other subjects.
Religious debate subjects. I could see one panel (or several, depending on the depth of discussion) that goes into the traditional arguments (eg Kalam, problem of evil, etc) and how they tend to unfold.
Evolutionary and social origins of religiosity. These panels would review the sociobiology of religious belief as a pan-cultural phenomenon. Why do virtually all cultures have some kind of religious belief? When does it lead to evolutionary success? When is it harmful? Can this understanding allow us to “treat” for it, like we do with other public health crises?
Non-theistic foundations of philosophy. Can we establish a philosophical foundation of ethics and moral reasoning, and how do they compare with religiously originated ones?
Atheism is tied to religion in that it is religions that posit god-concepts as having a non-mythological/non-fictional basis in reality. Atheism is perfectly compatible with religions that are non-theistic.
But the question is what could be talked about. If atheism to you is merely some cosmic nihilism, then you’d be welcome to not attend and instead throw a ferret into someone’s tub to try to get money for Jackie Treehorn.
As an atheist, I have trouble understanding what a bunch of us would get together and do, in the name of atheism.
We can discuss how I didn’t bring my stamp collection.
… because I don’t collect stamps.
i found this at their website
I can think of a number of topics.
How religions harm society. This can be done philosophically in general, historically, or with present day examples. I could see multiple different sessions on this, including dividing into regional phenomena on top of the other subjects.
Religious debate subjects. I could see one panel (or several, depending on the depth of discussion) that goes into the traditional arguments (eg Kalam, problem of evil, etc) and how they tend to unfold.
Evolutionary and social origins of religiosity. These panels would review the sociobiology of religious belief as a pan-cultural phenomenon. Why do virtually all cultures have some kind of religious belief? When does it lead to evolutionary success? When is it harmful? Can this understanding allow us to “treat” for it, like we do with other public health crises?
Non-theistic foundations of philosophy. Can we establish a philosophical foundation of ethics and moral reasoning, and how do they compare with religiously originated ones?
So atheism to you is just “anti religion”. Meh. That sort of conflation is what makes atheism seem so “bad” to people.
Theism and religion are not one and the same.
No, and no.
Atheism is tied to religion in that it is religions that posit god-concepts as having a non-mythological/non-fictional basis in reality. Atheism is perfectly compatible with religions that are non-theistic.
But the question is what could be talked about. If atheism to you is merely some cosmic nihilism, then you’d be welcome to not attend and instead throw a ferret into someone’s tub to try to get money for Jackie Treehorn.