(March 11, 2017 at 1:22 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Apparently the word atheist means whatever any given self-described atheist says it means, which is that it basically means nothing at all.
"You are an atheist because you do not believe in/accept my god(s)" has been the basic definition from year dot, as you yourself acknowledged.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'