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13. Bingo
Sun Apr 4, 2021, 04:48 PM
Apr 2021

I don't worry about what we call people whose favorite color isn't blue, or people who don't swim in ocean waters on a Thursday, or people who own cars that aren't white.

If a Christian asks me whether I believe in their god, then I'll admit I'm not a Christian. If someone is curious whether I believe in the Roman gods, I'd have to say no. If belief in tree gods ever comes up in a conversation, then no, I don't believe in trees gods. If someone asked me if I'm a Buddhist, I'd let them know that I don't have much knowledge about Buddhism, and the same goes for being a Muslim, but chances are good that no, I'm not believer.

I don't believe in Aztec gods, Mayan gods, Etruscan gods, Egyptian gods, so many many gods I don't believe in and so many more I've never heard of before, but probably wouldn't believe in if I did know them.

There's not a word for that. There's no word for just living my life and not-believing in all the crazy, cock-a-mamie, abstract deities that humans have managed to conjure in their imaginations for the past 400,000 years.

Additional name for atheists? [View all] Lord Ludd Apr 2021 OP
There should be fewer names, not more! Shermann Apr 2021 #1
"There isn't a name for a non-astronomer." 3catwoman3 Apr 2021 #2
That's just an example of inductive reasoning being applied to the nature of flat earthers Shermann Apr 2021 #4
I wholeheartedly agree that 'atheist' is an odd word Lord Ludd Apr 2021 #7
Bingo Random Boomer Apr 2021 #13
I think of myself as a content questioner. 3catwoman3 Apr 2021 #3
Cosmost, or Cosmist but I still use, secular humanist, and I remember when I got in trouble with ShazamIam Apr 2021 #5
This is a good name, but ... Trueblue Texan Apr 2021 #6
Now you made me think of Little Caesars... Lord Ludd Apr 2021 #8
If that is the case, why is it you haven't made yourself known to the official group? A HERETIC I AM Apr 2021 #15
I just did! Trueblue Texan Apr 2021 #19
Free-thinker? nt Laffy Kat Apr 2021 #9
Did you ask god if he approves of that name? nt Binkie The Clown Apr 2021 #10
Actually, I did Lord Ludd Apr 2021 #11
LOL!!! Trueblue Texan Apr 2021 #12
Are you sure your toaster was plugged in? Binkie The Clown Apr 2021 #14
Yanno, a few years ago there was the attempt to make popular the name "Brights" A HERETIC I AM Apr 2021 #16
I typically use "atheist" despite how I don't... Buckeye_Democrat Apr 2021 #17
Well, here's the thing. Cosmos, being part of centuries of Greek attempts to explain creation, has a Karadeniz Apr 2021 #18
In spanish, "Cosmovision" means "Worldview" old as dirt Dec 2021 #20
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