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Well put IROC. In my mind the reason to disown the term athiest is to negate the logical, but ultimately ineffective, argument raised by Superman. That is, you cannot prove god(s) does not exist, so does/probably does. Its technical victory for the faithful, but it has a sigificnance for those on the rational side. Rational people do not hold faith based positions.
But it also has some advantages. The faith based are fluxommed by rationals who will not take an absolute position based on faith. (Atheism is a religion like baldness is a...) and it puts god firmly in the same realm as the FSM and Russell's Teapot. Forced the Tower of Intellect to go straight for Anslem, after all.....
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