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[Kyuuketsuki]

I should point out though, that when I was an atheist it was different to be an atheist. Being an atheist then simply meant that you didn’t believe in God. Didn’t go to church or subscribe to the notion of that sort of control and cultural and social position. Now being an atheist means that you just strictly adhere to another cultural and social position. It was a great deal more simple back then. At least that is the way I see it.

You say you were an atheist ... at the risk of invoking the NTS fallacy, why were you one? What kind of atheist were you ... I mean me? I'm pretty much a militant atheist, very much a strong atheist using more conventional definitions.

I have to disagree that being an atheist, beyond an observation that we lack a sense of community that often centres around churches and so on, has any cultural connotations at all.

Kyu