Is being an atheist important to you?

[900ft j]

"What worries me is people's tendency to define themselves in terms of what they oppose. "Negative identity." "

Some people are just atheist, and some people are in addition wildly anti-religion, and the anti- part becomes personally important."

Probalbly true with some anti folks but not all. I don't like locking people and things into labels because there are different interpretations of those lables and not everyone fits cleanly in any one category. I hesitated over what to term myself on this forum, decided on anti-theist since I not only disbelieve in the existence of gods, I am consider religion, faith, and belief in gods harmful to our species. To me, that's not a negative identity, but a positive affirmation that I find something harmful -

personally important? Not as my identity goes, but important in being vigilant in how I examine my own beliefs. It's not an identity, it's a way of thinking about how I view reality.