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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

further_ahem

1:32p A Bone Picked FOR Me A post on a huffington Post page ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-schweitzer/asheville-atheism-attacke_b_391976.html ) succinctly encapsulated a problem i have with people who class atheism as a "religion" "Atheist" is derived from the ancient Greek adjective atheos, which means "without gods." Defining anybody or any movement as the negative of another is a bad start. I refuse to be defined as an absence of what somebody else supposedly has; I simply cannot be without something that does not exist. The idea is ridiculous. Calling me an atheist is like defining me as a man without a dragon tail, and then denying me my rights because I do not have a dragon tail! I cannot be absent something that is nothing but another's myth. I am a rationalist, and if others wish to believe in an invisible man in the sky with magical powers, we can label them arationalists. Denying my right to hold office because I refuse to acknowledge dragon tails has no place in modern American society. Thank you Jeff Schweizer, the same holds true internationally. end of line mr

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