I find it odd that when filling out a form that asked me what my religion is one of the choices is Atheist.

What now? That is the that opposite of religion.

  • mindlesscrollyparrotEnglish
    65·
    13 hours ago

    Surely atheism is the belief in the lack of a god. Agnosticism is the lack of belief in a god.

    • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      10 hours ago

      Sorta, break down the roots of the words. Atheists activly deny that there is are gods (anti-theism), Agnostics (a-gnostic) are those who dont know, are unconvinced or those who simply dont care. If you really want to be pedantic (annoy your religious friends), point out that most theists are also atheists in a sense as they deny all gods, except for their own.

      • mindlesscrollyparrotEnglish
        41·
        9 hours ago

        Exactly. Lack of belief in gods is not the same as actively denying that there are gods.

        • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          8 hours ago

          The issue is that in conversation its hard for theists to tell the difference between the two. To them it dosen’t matter if I say “I think your wrong” or “I simply dont care”, a lot of them will see someone who needs to be “saved”. A non-zero number of them will be very annoying about that or be obstructive because of it, so its best to handle all religion based conversations with kid-gloves.