[ExI] atheists declare religions as scams

[spike]

... On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes
Subject: Re: [ExI] atheists declare religions as scams

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:32 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

>> Agnostics and atheists should have a symbol too, so they can have
something to carve on a gravestone, 
>>should they  opt for one.

>How about the simple lack of a symbol?  Religions catalyze around their own
banners, their own standards.  We, on the other hand, just are, much like
the universe.


Ja, that mostly works for me.  Of course then anyone who has no religious
symbol gets quietly coopted by those whose belief is symbolized by nothing,
the atheists.  This may not be completely acceptable to the believers who
choose no symbol.  In this sense it would be analogous to those who orally
stimulate their partner's testicles being involuntarily coopted by the much
larger group of those who oppose big government spending, all as a result of
their sharing the endearing term "teabaggers."  The former group had the
name first, but the latter group had it most.  

Regarding lack of symbol, I think you have it right however.

spike