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Hi there Les and all,

Les you are right in that this is not a light-subject forum where people come to play - they come here to think I am sure or to see what others are thinking about and talking about when it comes to belief or non-belief sites and systems and all.

Did you like my Mr Baloney effort? I re-read it now now and think it was not so bad for a shooting from the hip type of example. One day when I find the book (in one of my yet-as-unpacked book boxes from storage) I will rewrite the one that's there about Halleys Comet. Oh so funny.

Will tell about Olive Schreiner soonest, I am looking forward to the reading of the book.

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Now for me some of those words and ideas etc. that you used to describe atheism were judgemental and badgering and spoiling for a quarrel; but I also don't think you will get many people willing to take up that challenge. Perhaps that was not an intended action on your part, I just see it that way. And also read back - you asked for examples that the reader may think did not fit.

Questioning

Doubting/Skeptical (of what? being an Atheist?)

Searching
Exploring
Ruminating

Process-Oriented (baking a cake can be described thusly)

Open to new information/Open-Minded
Without Knowledge of ???
Freethinking

Realistic (Others might say tosh to this)

Non-Delusional (I think someone else would say that an agnostic/atheist is just the opposite. e- delusional)

Knowledgeable about other belief systems (Knowledgable maybe but on a surface level only and only knowledgeable enough to support a non-God approach. In a Catholic's book if you were knowledgable you would not be questioning. You would just have faith and be devout)

Scientifically-oriented/Naturalistic/Non-Superstitious (Mixed up overarching and too broad one might say?)

Humanistic (Define please?)

Past/Present/Future-Oriented (Which belief system isn't this?)

Non-Dogmatic (Another tosh one, Athiests are very dogmatic)

Iconoclastic (Define in context of Athiesm please)

Non-Ethnocentric (Now't to do with religious belief per se.)

Intellectually Flexible (Argues both sides and feel satisfied?)
at a stalemate answer or going round and round in circles?)

Intellectually Curious (about what? What someone else believes in or about what "I" believe in contrast?)

Sense of Humor (Nothing to do with the topic. Everyone needs a sense of Humour for everything they do in life and way beyond what one believes in etc)

Self-Aware

Any others?
Any that you think do not belong?

What words or phrases do you think would be most appropriate in describing both strong atheists and Fundamentalist Christians?

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I do not know enough about either fundamental Christianity other than to note it does not suit me at all and likewise, I do not know enough about Atheism to answer the last bit. Mind you, the comments I have made are neither here nor there really, one could get a real headache just thinking about it all. And as they say as a cop out ... the opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the writer/editor/whomever. Sorry Les.

Perhaps in my next life I will find those answers? Or perhaps the answers lie in the stars Horatio? Or could it be an occasion to clap with one hand?

Smile now. Cheers I say, am off to absorb some sun, commune with my roses and remove the leaves of those afflicted ... out out damn spot!