(May 31, 2012 at 9:02 pm)King_Charles Wrote: People are scrambling about for an identity and grouping in this post-modern age of ours, it's the huamn condition to do so. Atheism offers one as much as theism.
Which isn't saying much. All theists have in common is belief in at least one God or gods. All atheists have in common is the lack. Skeptics and humanists, on the other hand, seem to get on better than the 30,000 odd Christian sects.
(June 2, 2012 at 10:47 am)elunico13 Wrote: I'd also like to point out the extreme irony of the term "freethinker" becoming ossified though the importance of it to mant people as a label for group identity into a merely a term for someone who doesn't believe in God and adheres to a rather reductionist and out of date form of logical positivism rather than someone who actually keeps a open mind.
A 'freethinker' is just someone who doesn't use appeal to authority and dogma as a way of getting people to agree with them or as a justification for force.
