(June 30, 2013 at 10:53 pm)Inigo Wrote: Tedious, mate. Just tedious. Use the term 'atheism' and 'atheist' however you like. I really don't care. But I use 'atheism' to mean the proposition that no gods exist and 'atheist' to mean someone who believes that proposition to be true. That's all you need to know.
Then like I said, expect your personal definitions and conclusions drawn from them to generate a lot of friction, since it's always appreciated when someone comes along and tells us what we do and don't believe. Consider it a prophecy, if you like. That's all you need to know, 'mate'.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'