re: #83 iceweasel

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!—

It really doesn’t mean anti-religious, but the evangelical atheists are just the most noticeable kind. Everyone in my Army unit knew I was agnostic and it brought me no shit, even though one of my senior raters was the head of Protestant Men of the Chapel.
(One day he showed up on a Habitat site with the PMOC, to be shocked to find me on top of the truck, directing the wall drop—confused the hell out of him, since Habitat is expressly a Christian ministry.)