Why use atheist at all? If someone was to ask me on the street if I believed in God, I would answer with, "I hold that the case for the existence of a god is underwhelming and not definitive." This likely to undercut the negative connotations and baggage most Christians and etc bring to the word.
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. - Denis Diderot
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal