Mike,
I'm on board. I see your point: Why be called something for which there's no
indication anyway. It's superfluous and back-handed.
I'm also a Santa-denier (but not to my youngest Niece).
I am a Klingon-hater! (ooh, shocking!).
So I say atheism is a neutral-grey feature I wear. I personally don't care
that people KNOW, as long as they do. It's not a political statement I make,
but a spiritual one: I state that my spirit is its own, and can be your own, if
only a god has nothing to do with it. God implies too much ownership: by God.
And no sharing by us who are the ones who share everything. Granted, this is a
Buddhist view, or there may be other traditions who share it with us.
Thus, I think I make a little bigger deal about it than you do, Mike, OVERTLY.
I'm "out" about it. You don't care to be. A closet- Atheist!: good to MEET
you! Always a new beast-ie, if we live long enough.
No, man, don't let me rag on ya; I unnastan'. Well done.
--Joe
> uerusuboyo@... wrote:
>
> Joe, The idea of a Creator God who personally intervenes on our behalf is a
> meta-physical and/or superstitious idea that gets more credence by having a
> proper-noun label for those that don't believe in said idea. That's my point
> about not having a label for those of us who don't believe in leprechauns or
> a flat-earth etc. I just don't see any evidence for one (a personal god) and
> giving me a label gives the idea a status it doesn't deserve (compared to
> other ideas with absolutely no evidence or necessity). People who just use
> the label 'God' as a shorthand for something other than a personal god (such
> as 'universal energy', Love, Ground of Being etc.) isn't the "God" I'm
> talking about.
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