(June 26, 2014 at 2:42 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Yup. MFM saying 'most people think atheism means x' is an illustration of the problem. just like a huge portion of people completely misunderstand the thoery of evolution, it doesnt mean we start talking about evolution in their terms.
No it isn't,that's how language works. ALL words get their meaning by how people use them. That's not even remotely comparable to misunderstandings of evolutionary theory.
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