What the fuck are you spouting off about? The other comment was called out for not knowing history
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TheRaven@lemmy.ca 5 months agoThen don’t. I don’t believe in any god. I just don’t call myself an atheist. I’m just not anything. If there was a survey of which religion I belonged to, I just wouldn’t check any box. Then I don’t have to associate myself with any group, I just am.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Forester@yiffit.net 5 months ago
That’s the definition of an atheist bro. A theist believes in a higher power and atheist does not.
TheRaven@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
“It’s odd that the word atheist even exists. I don’t play golf. Is there a word for non-golf players? Do non-golf players gather and strategize? Do non-skiers have a word and come together and talk about the fact that they don’t ski?”
LengAwaits@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This is a pretty sad take from NdT, and it comes across as though he were attempting to dodge a question. Perhaps even to avoid being labeled, which is probably why you like it.
If 99% of the population were golfers, and 1%weren’t, there would almost certainly be a word for the people who didn’t golf. Same applies to theists. Up until very recently it would have been considered quite unusual to to not be a theist.
Atheists did not decide on that label. The word is believed to have initially been pejorative.