acrionx opened this issue on Oct 05, 2010 · 394 posts
ShawnDriscoll posted Thu, 07 October 2010 at 1:49 AM
An atheist is simply someone who is not a theist. They are not anti-theist. Just atheist. They don't know about God (or Gods), and they don't hate those that do know about God (or Gods).
Those that do have a problem though with theists are not atheists. For they do believe in something. Just not God. They believe in things such as celebrities and/or governments to tell them how to live and make choices for them. They know about God, but choose to reject him. They feel they are smarter and that there are far more superior/intellectual things to believe in.
But they are not atheists. It's hard to be an atheist. Because everyone believes in something if not God. Everyone.