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Originally Posted by The Batlord
It's the word for someone who doesn't believe in a god. Whether or not you label yourself as such, if you do not believe in a god then you are an atheist. If you are a two-dimensional, four-sided geometric shape, with all sides equal, opposite sides parallel, and all converging into four right angles, then you are a square, regardless of the fact that you don't like being called a square.
Atheism isn't a religion, or a belief system, or a political party, or a clubhouse. It is merely the lack of a belief in a deity.
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Atheism is a word coined by those who believe to label those who don't. You wanna call me that? Fine.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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