re: #80 Decatur Deb

To Americans from the ’50s, MMO was the face of atheism. And she is much of the reason atheism was seen as “anti”, not “without” gods.

I think this goes to the heart of the matter— ‘atheism’ doesn’t have to mean anti-religion, just ‘without gods’— but for people who are ex-catholics, or ex-christians, or whatever, they might have an antireligious bias that atheism alone doesn’t convey or connote.
I can see an argument made for ‘antireligion’ being separate from ‘atheism’ — if that makes sense. i need more coffee!—