| | ::Well, I'm sorry if I'm not convinced. Lots of people also confuse the words "there", "their", and "they're". Just because the public tends to misunderstand and confuse words doesn't mean anything. The adjective "religiously" developed out of an observation of religious behavior, although it was never the most fitting adjective. More appropriately, the adjective "religiously" means "obsessively religious". But, what happens when a person acts "obsessively irreligious"? The adjective "religiously" no longer applies. To say that someone is "religiously irreligious" might sound cute, and people understand what it means, but the meaning directly contradicts itself, resulting in an irreconcilable oxymoron. The notion that "atheism is a religion" is a mistake, due to ignorance, as I've plainly spelled out. If there were any validity to it, then it would have to be acknowledged, but: "truth is, by nature, self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear." - Mahatma Gandhi [[User:Humanperson|Humanperson]] ([[User talk:Humanperson|talk]]) 23:09, 26 August 2015 (EDT) | | ::Well, I'm sorry if I'm not convinced. Lots of people also confuse the words "there", "their", and "they're". Just because the public tends to misunderstand and confuse words doesn't mean anything. The adjective "religiously" developed out of an observation of religious behavior, although it was never the most fitting adjective. More appropriately, the adjective "religiously" means "obsessively religious". But, what happens when a person acts "obsessively irreligious"? The adjective "religiously" no longer applies. To say that someone is "religiously irreligious" might sound cute, and people understand what it means, but the meaning directly contradicts itself, resulting in an irreconcilable oxymoron. The notion that "atheism is a religion" is a mistake, due to ignorance, as I've plainly spelled out. If there were any validity to it, then it would have to be acknowledged, but: "truth is, by nature, self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear." - Mahatma Gandhi [[User:Humanperson|Humanperson]] ([[User talk:Humanperson|talk]]) 23:09, 26 August 2015 (EDT) |