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JillSwift wrote: The term

Submitted by Loc on May 7, 2008 - 10:04am.

JillSwift wrote:

 

The term is an odd one, you must admit, in that it describes the absence of something. There aren't many words that work in reverse like that.

I agree with Sam Harris on this.The word atheist shouldn't exist.We don't go around calling people a-santa clausers,a-astrologies,a-fairies in the garden etc. However I think religion is so prevalent in soceity most people can't just grasp if you say  "I don't believe anything.' We need something to define us,at least for now, even if it's defining nothing.

JillSwift wrote:

 This can get awfully silly, like the charge leveled at atheists lately from several ostensibly independent sources: That evolution by natural selection, and specifically Darwin's "Origin of Species", is to atheists as the "New Testament" is to Christians.

Ya well they never were too clever.I haven't read Origin of Species but I'm still an atheist.I hope..

JillSwift wrote:
Which leads me to ask that odd question. What I mean is: Is there any single one of us that really labels ourselves as an atheist first, before any other facet of ourselves?

I think I do.Maybe it's because I'm still a relatively new atheist, or because I spend the vast majority of my day thinking about it and reading various atheist forums. I do tend to think of myself as atheist before anything else.I'm not sure if that's a bad thing, but it's the main attention and passion of my life at the moment.

JillSwift wrote:

So, how about it? Anyone here really "an atheist"?

Yes?

Psalm 14:1 "the fool hath said in his heart there is a God"-From a 1763 misprinted edition of the bible

Life is good, and people who believe in afterlife fail to understand this.- Mindcore

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