What is the definition of atheist? And how is it that you have decided to brand yourself as one? Is it because you are tired of the hypocricy of religious order, or is it because you truly believe there is no higher power? And do you know where the term atheist came from. It came from the reformers. Basically to be an atheist was to question the concepts of how religion believes in god. Atheism was used to define christians, jews catholics. Each sect would call other religions this if they didnt believe in their faith in it's entirety.Maybe it is not that you dont believe in something higher. Maybe it is that you believe in something higher than what men try to force upon you. I call myself neither. Because you do not have to categorize yourself just so that someone can understand who you are to them. But who you are to yourself. I say I am all an atheist, a buddhist, a christian, a paganist. Because it is all the same.
2006-10-03
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