Lt. Kizhe Catson wrote:
The main point of all this is: no one -- not me, not you, not O'Hair --
gets to universally define the meaning if the word "atheism", to the
exclusion of all variant definitions. The Pope and Magisterium gets to
define the meaning of "Catholicism", but no equivalent authority exists
for atheism. It follows that (as suggested by another poster) you (and
others) should leave off bickering over the label, and deal with the
merits of the actual positions taken.
Well I'm 100% with you on this. I don't really care for the bickering
either, but most of the time I'm just attempting to explain to others
here why I have an issue with any sort of dogmatic grandstanding wrt
what the definition of atheism should be.
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