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[subtle_blues]

I hate the term "atheist" since its premise and its structure are anti-god. I don't believe in god but I don't believe in Santa either. I am not an asantist and I am not an atheist. neither am I a abigfootist or aunicornist. Why is god the default position?

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[oldhen]

Well, the answer is probably historical - belief in some form of "God" has been a common thread throughout history. Of course, if we were being precise it would be the recorded part of it, which granted is only a small part of human history, blah blah.

As to the term itself, particularly in Europe not believing in God was a big crime, certainly worthy of a word - much more so than abigfootist :-)

[subtle_blues]

True, but I don't think whoever made that comment was questioning the origin of the word itself, was more of a rhetoric I think.

(smiley came out by default,sorry. sounded f***ing condescending when I read it again)

[oldhen]

>smiley came out by default

I hear you, smileys are default :-) It wasn't condescending in the slightest, have come to generally disregard the apparent tone of anything written in emails, blogs etc anyways.

[subtle_blues]

Did you even read the subject of the post? :| I didn't say that.. I just quoted it.

Anyways, that was exactly the guy's point, athiest sounds anti-god and not like 'don't believe in god'. You make God the center and divide the world into 'with him' or 'against him'... somewhat like Bush.

[subtle_blues]

how come you're never online anymore?

heh...I'm being selfish of course, I get about 10 mins before I begin my day to chat while I'm drinking coffee, that's between 7.30 and 8.00 am here (would be 7.00-7.30 pm there) when I look for potential targets. *hint* *hint* and sometimes between 12.30-1.00 pm (here).