(December 13, 2015 at 1:19 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Wasn't it Richard Dawkins who said atheists should have a name and call themselves "Brights?" If atheism just means not believing in God, then how does this automatically make someone "bright" unless there's more to it than that?
That wasn't Dawkins as far as I was aware.
The Bright Stuff by Daniel Dennett
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/12/opinio...stuff.html
"The term ''bright'' is a recent coinage by two brights in Sacramento, Calif., who thought our social group -- which has a history stretching back to the Enlightenment, if not before -- could stand an image-buffing and that a fresh name might help."
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
