Because people have taken the name 'atheism' & added values to it, formed a movement around it & made rules & exclusions.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Who is enforcing following the rules or exclusions? It's still a definition, no matter what other stupid shit people do/say.
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Replying to @cabinloon
Yes but if enough of them do it to make it burdensome, its easier just to say I don't believe in gods. I'll do that now.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I guess I haven't seen more burden in the label than I see in the meaning of it. Religious ppl put way more constraints on that.
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Replying to @cabinloon @HPluckrose
That is, the religious have long defined what the tribe is, much more than any atheist group has,& I reject their ideas as much.
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Replying to @cabinloon
Wasted too much time arguing with them too. Will ditch the label and get down to substance.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
That's fine but my suspicions is that the issue will be there either way, with those people.
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Replying to @cabinloon
But really its fine whether I ID as 'atheist' or not coz doing so in relation to influences in my own life & affects no-one else.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Before I was on twitter, I never even saw/heard phrases like "whether I ID as". The label itself doesn't arise much for me in RL
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Replying to @cabinloon @HPluckrose
it's just a definition. Almost sounds like "whether I ID as a mother" or sth? (I could see some feminist caring about, maybe? :)
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If 'mother' stops meaning ' female parent' & becomes ambiguous & ideological, I'd call myself 'female parent.'
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