I've started reading Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto & find myself in disagreement. I'm not at all sure IDing as 'atheist' is important.
When I used 'atheist' a lot, I was all abt God & non-existence of God. Fair enough coz my belief in & fear of him had dominated for so long
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But you can only be interested in a non-existent god for so long. God itself is seldom the focus for atheist critics of religion.
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We're usually much more concerned abt how ppl claim to know things & the ethical values of religion & its impact on the world we share.
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Therefore 'sceptic' and 'humanist' are much more informative 'master-signifiers' for many of us than 'atheist.' That's a good thing.
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Often ppl associate scepticism & humanism & liberalism & science-advocacy with atheism but that's not necessarily so & has its own dangers.
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