(April 23, 2011 at 11:40 am)Garmston Ansell Wrote: I appreciate what you're saying however that's your definition, and it's fair. Would you say that atheists appreciate being defined by non atheists, or do they find it irritating?
It's not my definition and I take no credit for it, it comes directly from the original Latin term: A Theos, "A" meaning "Without" and "theos" meaning "belief/believes in a deity" - That's the very definition of Atheism.
If they call me an atheist because they have identified that I do not believe in a god then I have no problem with it, if they misuse the word to talk about something else, like "Atheism is a worldview" then I get a little irritated.
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