Well, yes, there *is* a problem in defining your stance by opposition to others, but the term is useful, nonetheless. Simply saying "unchurched" or "realist" or "non-religous" sometimes simply doesn't say enough, or mean enough to others to convey all of the meaning necessary. | At 09:00 PM 9/21/98 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: | | >I (as a militant atheist) merely say that if you can define | your God, I can | >probably prove he doesn't exist. Unless, of course, your | definition is so | >broad as to have no meaning in the first place. | | As a thinker I find the term atheism dignifies the | concept of theism, so I find it offensive. Theists | are primitives and one needn't stoop. | | In my religion, saying unprovable things in public | is a stonable offense. | | Joe Momma