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stopbush

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10. Indeed, a theist's perverted view of what an atheist is.
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 01:42 PM
Jun 2020

That was a huge part of the problem with that bullshit show.

Of course, the problem starts with the word “atheist” itself, which is a word devised by theists to describe people who are not theists. Imagine if we defined other aspects of the human condition in such a way. Someone who does not collect stamps would be referred to as an “aphilatelic.” A person who does not collect coins would be called an “anumismatic.”

Gee. Those two terms alone cover 98% of humanity. Yet imagine using those terms to describe people not for what they are, but what they are not!

Perhaps we should start calling theists what they really are: arationalists.

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