(December 13, 2015 at 1:19 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(December 13, 2015 at 12:48 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote: Atheism doesn't have a spokesman, Its just not believing in the god claim, nothing else.
That's all it is supposed to be, but I have noticed it becomes more than that to some people sometimes. Though not so much in this forum.
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? But then again, not very many people here like him so perhaps he's not all too popular among long time atheists.
"Many, but not all, brights also identify as atheist, antitheist, humanist (specifically secular humanist), freethinker, Objectivist, irreligionist, naturalist, materialist orphysicalist, agnostic, ignostic, skeptic, apatheist, or even naturalistic pantheist, pandeist or classical Deist.[6] Even so, the "movement is not associated with any defined beliefs". The website Brights' Net says its goal is to include the umbrella term bright in the vocabulary of this existing "community of reason"."
From wikipedia. Don't worry, I wasn't particularly sure till I checked. Easy mistake to make.
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- Abdul Alhazred.
