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The Difference Between Atheism and Secularism

Religion is a package, and you cannot pick and select otherwise. You can be on the left with respect to emotion, but on the right with respect to ecnomic. Christianity is fundamentally a secular religion. If you look at what people do when facing big decisions that they face as an atheist, some of them will act in same way as those who are not atheists. Some popatheist behaviour is called 'anisatrapta' - which means: "I am nothing" But if you want to add anything else, i might. Yes. I want te well, d you want se nything else about religion? I'm not im nobut,. because i i

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