RE: Adjective or Noun?
October 16, 2015 at 7:23 am
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2015 at 7:25 am by Edwardo Piet.)
It pisses me off too I feel exactly the same.
And yes, it's totally incorrect.
I saw one guy post on another forum years ago and he said "Atheism is not a religion and in fact I don't even label myself as "an atheist" I'm just atheist."
Just felt like a massive facepalm right there. Why is using incorrect usage and missing out the word 'an' less of a 'label' than using words correctly? Ugh, I think people are so scared to be 'labelled' they take it too far sometimes. I still like Dawkins' approach of embracing the words 'atheist' and 'atheism' and 'coming out' as an atheist as it is nothing to be ashamed of.
And then you've even got people who don't believe in God but don't like calling themselves atheists because the connotation pisses off religious people? Oh fuck off you're not there to cater to the emotional hypersensitivity of theists. Sigh.
You've got people who even dislike atheists and yet don't believe in God and when you say "Well you're an atheist too then..." it pisses them off? Oh for fucks sake.
/end rant.
And yes, it's totally incorrect.
I saw one guy post on another forum years ago and he said "Atheism is not a religion and in fact I don't even label myself as "an atheist" I'm just atheist."
Just felt like a massive facepalm right there. Why is using incorrect usage and missing out the word 'an' less of a 'label' than using words correctly? Ugh, I think people are so scared to be 'labelled' they take it too far sometimes. I still like Dawkins' approach of embracing the words 'atheist' and 'atheism' and 'coming out' as an atheist as it is nothing to be ashamed of.
And then you've even got people who don't believe in God but don't like calling themselves atheists because the connotation pisses off religious people? Oh fuck off you're not there to cater to the emotional hypersensitivity of theists. Sigh.
You've got people who even dislike atheists and yet don't believe in God and when you say "Well you're an atheist too then..." it pisses them off? Oh for fucks sake.
/end rant.
