Thread: "Brights"
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Old 11-06-2003, 04:55 AM   #3
Faceman
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Join Date: February 18, 2002
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I think it's a new way to promote atheism, and I don't like that.
A-theist, A-gnostic or NON-believer are "negative" words in the sense of antomyms not in the sense of being peiorative, bright is a positive word in the sense of "clever" and woudn't that make all the believers the "non-bright" or the "clouded". This is the common misconception atheists have of religious people and I don't like it to be fueled by this new terminology.
I'm an agnostic and I know a lot of bright atheist and agnostics but sadly I've also met people who were as blind an atheist as others are Catholics.
Maybe this is arrogant, but I belief that religion is a useful - if not necessary - aspect in the life of many people and that atheism is just not suitable for some people.
I also think that atheism is promoted in a way like Christianity was promoted by missionaries centuries ago and that this eventually leads to a lot of unhappy people, who are just unfit to live their live without religion.
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