I rejoice to be an atheist.

[Mark]

Thanks for your reply, but I fail to appreciate your point. Even if atheists were in a large majority, they would still describe themselves as atheist.

Then we a certainly in disagreement. I do not call myself asoccerfan or avegetarian for instance. Labeling yourself by what you are not is very contradictory and shouldn't be necessary.

I don't call myself a baseball fan, a lover of beef steak charred rare, or an atheist unless the appropriate context arises. But when someone asks me about my beliefs, I say that I'm an atheist.

This term incompletely but adequately describes my belief system. I certainly don't consider it to be pejorative, though I understand that some foolish people use it in a pejorative sense.

I don't know that we're in disagreement, frankly, since neither of us has the slightest legitimate concern for what terms the other uses to describe himself.