(July 13, 2014 at 6:26 pm)GalacticBusDriver Wrote:(July 12, 2014 at 7:18 pm)Jenny A Wrote: I have on more than one occasion told an acquaintance I don't believe in god only to have them come back a few days later to ask if I'm an atheist. Somehow disbelief is okay, but the word atheist bothers them.
I've run into this with my dad. He knows I don't believe at all and he's fine with that. Tell him I'm an atheist and he'll go bug shit!
I think it goes back to the bullshit the christers keep pulling that all atheists claim there is no god.
Still, it's better than my step-moms views. She calls everyone who's not a christer, theist or not, atheists.I like the woman, especially since dad would have pined away into an early grave without her, but she's bat-shit crazy!
I've always wondered why does a word to describe people who lack or disbelieve deities exists... Why don't we call people who don't believe in unicorns anicornists?
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
