Author: Thomas KeskeThomas Keske Date: Feb 24, 2008 11:40
Rationalists vs Irrationalists
The term "atheist" might not seem like a biased term,
but there is a subtle bias in it. It is a term defined
from the perspective of religionists.
Maybe the bias would be a bit more evident, if we
referred to the two camps as "godless people",
as opposed to "People of God". One sounds so
dirty, the other so wholesome. What a backwards
lie that is, as one would expect, in this upside-down world.
The roots "a" and "theos" are meaning "without" and
"deity", respectively.
From the atheist perspective, it is not the "atheist" who
is "without" something, because there is no thing that exists
that he would be capable of "lacking".
It is the religionist who is without something, and
that would be "rationality".
To be "without a thing" implicitly presupposes
the existence of the thing.
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