(November 13, 2013 at 4:54 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Okay, I have a question. When you have a entire community of atheists telling you one definition for atheism and a dictionary telling you another then which is it?Like someone said above, let them call you what they want.
I'd simply tell them them my belief/stance on the whole issue, namely.... I do not believe in any gods, and I do not make the claim that I know no gods exist as a fact.
If they think that makes me an atheist, I'm an atheist. If they think that makes me an agnostic, I'm an agnostic. If they think that makes me a blueberry pie, I'm a blueberry pie.
I really don't give two shits what the label is, as long as people understand what your position is without putting words into your mouth. We only use labels so we don't have to constantly re-explain what we believe, but apparently with some of these "philosophical" types you'll have to keep re-explaining because they'll waste more time and energy dissecting a word down its microscopic definitions than discussing what the word was intended to mean in the first place.
