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In reply to the discussion: I am not religious. Can you please categorize Atheism into a "race"? [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)I said to you "You'd have to ask those people in the Sunday Assemblies."
I think that's a pretty clear statement.
See, I don't presume to know what EVERY atheist thinks. All I know is that the atheists I know BELIEVE that there is no deity, and it doesn't bother them to couch their belief in lack of belief in those terms.
It's only here on DU that I see all the huffery and puffery over that language and that oft-repeated mantra about TV channel/off and bald/hair color (bald is listed as a hair color on many official documents--so that kinda blows that one out of the water, too).
Every atheist I know believes that if Thor or Zeus or Jesus or Muhamad appeared before them and said "Hey dude, you were wrong," they would change their beliefs. They wouldn't persist in holding the belief that there's no deity. It seems like a sensible attitude, to have an ability to be flexible in the face of evidence.