Dragaera

Damiano's Lute

Tue Nov 26 15:24:30 PST 2002

I find this recent trend towards defining atheism as a religion of non-belief
very disconcerting. Instead of maintaining that atheism is "belief in no god,"
or "belief there is no god," can't we say instead that it is "no belief in
god?" For me, at any rate, it is more about not believing in something than
believing in something opposed to something else. 

I'm aiming for accuracy of the term; I don't wish to offend anyone.