(July 13, 2014 at 9:02 pm)Jenny A Wrote:(July 13, 2014 at 6:26 pm)GalacticBusDriver Wrote: 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!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.
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!
Maybe 'non practitioner atheist' would make people less hostile, who knows?
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
