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Originally Posted by Saya
I don't really like Raelians either (I can't really put my finger on it though, I'm not too well educated about them). But they are atheists, very prolific atheists, just as much as you are. All atheists are, are people who do not believe in god. It doesn't mean that they don't have a religion. Just because there's a stereotype doesn't mean we have to adhere to a stereotype at all costs whenever we discuss it.
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When the average human being talks about atheists, they tend to mean people who lack positive belief in gods & usually the supernatural. If you're talking about the new atheist movement or the secularist movement, "atheist" tends to mean someone who at Lear professes to have no positive supernatural beliefs whatsoever.
Raelians have a positive belief that a race of Aliens named after/who were confused for Judeo-Christian biblical deities created the human race via cloning & contacted a man in 1973 and told him that: oh yeah - you should probably stop having war and gambling & stuff and sleep with some super-bangin' chicks so we can come back to earth & take you into the stars.
You can see why I might consider calling them atheists is senselessly pedantic.
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I mean colloquially speaking we all probably think of fedora wearing MRAs when we talk about atheists.
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YOU think of that.