(July 13, 2014 at 6:26 pm)GalacticBusDriver Wrote:It is funny the rap the word "atheist" gets. Somehow agnostic and non-believer make people happier. I tried non-theist once, and the woman I was talking to asked if we had a church in town.(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!
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
