atheism
I don't understand why non-religious and atheist seem to be treated as the same thing. People ask how atheists get their morality, and what is the purpose of life for an atheist, like there couldn't possibly be an answer to either. What about all the religions without any gods?
I'm not religious in any way, and if someone asks me what my religion is I'd rather say that than 'atheist'. I don't have faith that there's a God, but I don't have faith that there isn't. Dividing people as theists and atheists forces people to make a faith statement about it, and I don't want to. If you say you're an atheist, people can say 'but how do you know there isn't a god?'
I could come up with anything and insist that it's true, and that everyone in the world must be a believer or a non-believer, and doing that seems to put some responsibility on the non-believers to prove me wrong (not in any logical way I know, but that's how it works with God)
I just don't like being forced to play the game and call myself an atheist, when my religious view is really 'none'
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