RE: 'Not labeling ourselves' Vs 'Bright' Vs just plain good old 'Atheist', etc.
May 13, 2009 at 3:15 pm
I'm happy calling myself atheist.
I have no problem with the word atheist in the same way that I have no problem words like amoral, agnostic, abiogenesis, acausal, acentric, asocial or athermic. Ultimately that's all the prefix "a" does ... it means non or absence of and I genuinely don't give a rats nuts whether the meaning of "atheism" relies on that of "theism".
Interestingly, at my new job, I filled in my religion from a drop down list and it had "atheist" ... granted it shouldn't be a religion (though it is, IMO, a religious stance) but hey it's a step up
Kyu
I have no problem with the word atheist in the same way that I have no problem words like amoral, agnostic, abiogenesis, acausal, acentric, asocial or athermic. Ultimately that's all the prefix "a" does ... it means non or absence of and I genuinely don't give a rats nuts whether the meaning of "atheism" relies on that of "theism".
Interestingly, at my new job, I filled in my religion from a drop down list and it had "atheist" ... granted it shouldn't be a religion (though it is, IMO, a religious stance) but hey it's a step up
Kyu
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