RE:

["Kurt Buff" <kurtbuff@halcyon.com>]

Well, yes, there *is* a problem in defining your stance by opposition to
others, but the term is useful, nonetheless.

Simply saying "unchurched" or "realist" or "non-religous" sometimes simply
doesn't say enough, or mean enough to others to convey all of the meaning
necessary.

| At 09:00 PM 9/21/98 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote:
|
| >I (as a militant atheist) merely say that if you can define
| your God, I can
| >probably prove he doesn't exist. Unless, of course, your
| definition is so
| >broad as to have no meaning in the first place.
|
| As a thinker I find the term atheism dignifies the
| concept of theism, so I find it offensive.  Theists
| are primitives and one needn't stoop.
|
| In my religion, saying unprovable things in public
| is a stonable offense.
|
| Joe Momma