Atheist VS Naturalist - the latter sounds more appealing to me...

[JohnMBauer]

In philosophy, naturalism is the idea or belief that only natural (as opposed to supernatural or spiritual) laws and forces operate in the universe.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalism...losophy%29


Atheism describes people on RELIGION's terms (it owns most of the word, literally)....the only problem I can see with describing myself as a naturalist from here on out is that some people might think I go hang out at the beach butt naked...this could be quite witty though, thinking on, so no bad really! Thoughts?

Here is how I understand it: To affirm naturalism is to affirm that the Universe is a closed system. To affirm atheism is to affirm that your world-view is without deity (godless). Affirming the former does not necessarily entail the latter.