What is in a label?

[Eilonnwy]

It's all BS to me. We need to reclaim the word not shy away from it.

I personally hate labeling myself, but people do it anyway. It's all silly to me, but don't make up new labels because the other one gets a bad reputation. I'm a bisexual, and that word has some baggage too, but I own it because it most accurately describes me as well as "Atheist" and "Secular Humanist" and "Independent Liberal" and so forth. The labels, as misleading as they can be, are useful to some degree.

I don't care if people shy away from the word atheist, but don't tell me I should. I will say I'm an atheist because it cuts to the chase, I don't believe in a god and I'm not gonna pussyfoot around it with an arrogant and silly term like "bright". I'll talk about my reasons for being an atheist based on "evidence" and "science" but otherwise I'm gonna wear that atheist T-shirt and hope that by being an honest and reasonable person that people will see past the atheist label and understand there's more to us than they thought. (and btw, I do own an atheist t-shirt)