(April 8, 2014 at 4:48 pm)cromwell Wrote: We shouldn't put ourselves into categories like atheists. I am just some one who does not believe in a god, just like I don't believe many things. If someone ever asks you if you believe in god, just say no. You don't have to announce to anyone that you are an atheist. Unless however your circumstances require it, but I don't know your circumstances.
First off, can you demonstrate why assuming an identifier like "atheist" (which, as has been pointed out, is the same as 'someone who does not believe in a god') is a bad thing? I belong to a group that I'm proud of. I don't feel pigeonholed at all by claiming to be an atheist.
I feel like I said in my previous post that I don't go around parading the fact that I'm an atheist. If you don't know me you wouldn't know that about me. But to the people that are close to me, it is an important part of my identity. I would literally have to lie about it in order to hide it from my family. It comes up. For anyone. Unless you have an non-religious family, you'd stick out like a sore thumb, unless you were just going along for the ride in order to avoid having a 'label.'
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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