But Christians have their senseless DOGMA, didn't you know? Atheists never have a set dogma.
Oh, but now Christians do not have a dogma? And Atheists do, as it turns out?
Can you make up your mind?
What are you
talking about? Now you're just being completely incoherent.
There are indeed some different Christian dogmas. There are no atheistic dogmas.
Right. Because all there is to atheism is not believing in gods. It's one aspect of a person--often not the focal point of their life, and almost
never the focal point of their moral and philosophical beliefs. People tend to build their philosophical worldviews around things that they
believe, rather than things they don't. That's why no reasonable person would
expect there to be unity among atheists. Because disbelief in one particular thing doesn't say anything about what the person
does believe.
I believe in individual rights to autonomy for
everybody, to the degree that they desire and are able to manage with some degree of safety (for themselves and/or the people around them, depending on the person).
That's an active belief--so that's something that's going to take a central place in my belief system. That I don't happen to believe in gods? Not all that important in my day to day life, and not all that important to my philosophical system. When I go to work and try to assist people with disabilities in the things they struggle with, so that they can have better control over their life, this is a day-to-day physical manifestation of my personal belief system. What does an absence of gods have to do with that? Why would I build a philosophical system around the absence of gods, when it's impossible to derive any useful conclusions from it?
No--my philosophical worldview is built around things I
do believe in. Just like everybody else's.
If you want to know what sorts of philosophical systems atheists create and participate in, look into atheistic Buddhism, non-theistic Quakers and atheistic Humanism, off the top of my head. Those are systems that have religious counterparts, but have been partially created, and embraced, by atheists. And again, I mention philosophical systems that are simply areligious--they are embraced by people with a variety of religious beliefs, including none: political parties, feminism, men's rights, liberalism and conservatism. All include atheists (I'm making an assumption about the men's rights, as I know just barely enough about them to know that they're pretty vile, but since it's a non-religious worldview, it could easily involve atheists.)
Atheists do not come together to create systems of their own.
"Of their own,"--that is true. We don't create systems that are only accessible to atheists, because not many atheists feel the need to discriminate against religious people the way religious people discriminate against atheists. When atheists want to do volunteer work, they don't usually feel the need to seek out an "atheist" group--they join either explicitly religious groups like Habitat for Humanity, or a-religious groups like Doctors Without Borders or the Red Cross, and they just
assume that they'll be working with people who have different beliefs from them, but that it's ok because they're all working toward a common goal.
Compare with religious people who can't even build a hospital without declaring its religious denomination.
They come together to destroy any system containing mention of a god or gods.
If atheists destroyed those systems, then those systems would be destroyed. Religious systems still exist. Ergo, atheists have not destroyed them.
