(June 26, 2012 at 12:14 am)Braioch Wrote: And Tempus, Atheism in my mind is a group of people whom share certain key beliefs as do other groups whom are not religious. Masons still get capitalized, each of the armed forces, groups get their names capitalized and honestly I think it's only fair that Atheists get it too.
Atheists share a single non-belief: the non-belief in gods. There aren't any beliefs that must be held in order to be an atheist. The word 'atheist' is an ordinary noun and the negative of 'theist', also a noun -- are you planning to capitalise 'theist', 'deist', and 'pantheist' as well? The Masons are part of an organisation. The names of organisations are capitalised because they're proper nouns. Atheism and theism aren't organisations.
