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What Is the Default Norm?
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The world is divided in its belief of God; there are those who don't believe in God and there are some who do still believe in such a supernatural oddity. Logically, it is reasonable to assume the absence of God to be the neutral position and the belief in God as something introduced on top of the neutral position. Nothing wrong with that assumption at all no matter which side of the reality fence you're on.
The English language is far from perfect and is continually evolving. Indeed it has to since the zeitgeist of time dictates that we constantly change definitions and introduce new words and participles into what has always been a complex composite language. Don't we just love to be au courant by saying "impacting" and "incentivizing". We used to phone people and now we "reach out" to them.
So we come to the strange incongruency of "atheist and theist". In days of yore, everyone was considered to be religious (did they have any choice?) thus being called theists, The dissenters (apart from being decapitated or burnt at the stake), were then labelled as "atheists".
Now the tables are reversed and, in these days of logic and reasoning, should we not perhaps call someone who takes the neutral position (previously atheist) as "normal" and someone in the non neutral position (previously theist) as...........?
The English language is far from perfect and is continually evolving. Indeed it has to since the zeitgeist of time dictates that we constantly change definitions and introduce new words and participles into what has always been a complex composite language. Don't we just love to be au courant by saying "impacting" and "incentivizing". We used to phone people and now we "reach out" to them.
So we come to the strange incongruency of "atheist and theist". In days of yore, everyone was considered to be religious (did they have any choice?) thus being called theists, The dissenters (apart from being decapitated or burnt at the stake), were then labelled as "atheists".
Now the tables are reversed and, in these days of logic and reasoning, should we not perhaps call someone who takes the neutral position (previously atheist) as "normal" and someone in the non neutral position (previously theist) as...........?
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