New name for atheists?

andrew1707 | 12:10 Wed 11th Apr 2012 | Society & Culture

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I don't like having to describe myself as an Atheist. The word atheist describes what I am not, but not what I am.

So come on ABers, get your thinking caps on and come up with a new name that doesn't sound too pretentious or superior.

You never know one day the new name may be adopted worldwide!!

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Scylax

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Godfrey maybe?

18:39 Sat 28th Apr 2012

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Frank97

Dagzimism

vulcan

you could reverse gazim and become a mizagomist.

wolf63

I thought that I had been banned from giving a letter.

C

That could mean that we could be - MAGICZ

jomifl

escapologists

jomifl

adieuists

rowanwitch

The Free

Free under common knowledge

andrew1707

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MAGIC....that may give the wrong impression of our beliefs.

Ah well, that passed the last half hour of work. I'm off home now.

Thanks all.

wolf63

Andrew - it is a hard job that you have. I worked harder in the civil service.

naomi24

The word ‘Atheist’ shouldn’t exist because it assumes belief in a God or Gods to be the default position for human beings – and it isn’t.

‘People’ is good word.

seadogg

"Freely suspended intellect" - Montesquieu

wolf63

naomi - 'We are The People. We are not sheep and we don't need a Shepherd'.

naomi24

//MAGIC....that may give the wrong impression of our beliefs.//

I don't think you can really say 'our beliefs', because as someone else said, Atheists do not necessarily hold the same beliefs - except for one. They don't believe in the existence of any god.

emmie

why do we have to have a new name, i am an atheist, it does what it says on the tin..

LazyGun

I see no need for a new name, myself. Atheism is a very specific term, applying to a non belief in a deity only. Why on earth would you wish to define yourself by such a narrow filter? For me, Atheism is only a part of who I am, and I am content that, when talking about gods and religion, I am known as an atheist.

Describing yourself should encompass more than just your attitude to gods and religion, and you will not be able to find any single term to cover all of what you believe.

In the spirit of the question though, I would have no objection to being described as a heretic, or infidel - both sound vaguely menacing :)