[ExI] atheism

[Mike Dougherty]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 3:25 AM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/12/09, Mike Dougherty wrote:
> > For the only commonality of a population of people that they do not
> > share a single idea that is believed those outside their group do share
> is
> > not really much of an identity.  As an indistinct label with almost no
> > expressive power to convey a specific import, why the obsession with
> > professing "atheism" as anything at all?
>
> Because it is important to tell people that you are part of the group
> that doesn't follow a soccer team, have no interest in soccer and
> consider it to be a complete waste of time.
>
> This may help those people who are soccer fanatics to reconsider the
> time and money they spend, if they realize that there is a life
> outside of soccer.
>

Thanks for further distilling my point to an even easier analogy.  I don't
believe soccer fans would be swayed by that argument very frequently
either.  :)
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