Labels Galore
We nonreligious have a remarkable number of labels with which we identify ourselves. I acknowledge that each has a unique denotation and connotation, that we disagree amongst ourselves what each one means, that we debate the merits of the options and that we often change labels, but the terms greatly overlap and tend to describe essentially the same group of people. Here is an incomplete list:
- agnostic
- antitheist
- apatheist
- atheist
- bright
- doubter
- freethinker
- godfree
- godless
- heathen
- heretic
- humanist
- ignostic
- infidel
- irreligious
- materialist
- naturalist
- nonbeliever
- nontheist
- nonreligious
- rationalist
- realist
- secularist
- skeptic
- unbeliever
- weak / strong
- negative / positive
- implicit / explicit
- apostate
- deconvert
1 comment:
Non-practicing atheist.
There are a lot of us out here in the rural south.
Ralph.
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