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                Why use the "A-word"?

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     Why not use a word less offensive to Christian ears?
Because Atheism is nothing of which to be ashamed. By saying
one is an Atheist, a person free from theism, one simply
proudly proclaims one's standing upon one's own two feet
intellectually, free from the bondage of dogma and
superstition. Pulpit-pounding hatred will follow Atheism no
matter how decorous a label is put upon it - dogmatists fear
the idea, not the name. Why not then use the simplest, most
honest, and most direct description of the position there
is?

     We agree with the British Atheist editor Chapman Cohen
who, earlier this century, wrote, "Atheist is really 'a
thoroughly honest, unambiguous term,' it admits of no
paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now
as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech."


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