Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Symbols for Atheists

What do atheists have in place of a cross, star, or crescent? Religious Tolerance.org has some suggestions. Note how many of them are merely negative. Atheism is not a positive belief, like Humanism, nor is it a simple absence of belief, like agnosticism; it's an aggressive, usually anger-driven emotional reaction against belief.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/atheist6.htm

Note, in fact, how many of these symbols express Christian-phobia. Atheist organizations should always be scrutinized; the choice of "atheist" rather than "agnostic" suggests that these people are not just Humanists, that they're probably hate groups.

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