Strictly speaking an atheist is someone who doesn't believe in someone else's favorite deity although he believes in his own favorite deity. The French Catholics invented the word "atheist" to curse the French Protestants because the Protestants had rejected the Catholic church. Theoretically they both believed in the same ethnocentric Jewish religious fairy tale but they had different rituals to express their beliefs.
If a person believes in the slug worm god TutuBluto who lives in the Sombrero Galaxy will religious fanatics respect him for believing in God or will they say that he's a fruitcake and want to burn him at the stake?
If a person believes in the slug worm god TutuBluto who lives in the Sombrero Galaxy will religious fanatics respect him for believing in God or will they say that he's a fruitcake and want to burn him at the stake?
