Welsh Wrote:When talking in cultural, social, and religious context, the label "Atheist" applies objectively to anyone who has an absence of belief in gods, therefore I use that label to identify myself as an atheist. Ta-dah.
Minor nitpick here: if it applied objectively, then what of this theist's differing definition?
Also, it is not an absence of a belief in gods to believe that gods do not exist. That is a negative belief. An absence of belief regarding gods is also atheism, but not the kind which you or I posses (babies and plants have it in stones though). ^_^
I pick at nits because they are delicious
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
