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ATHEISM IS NOT NEGATIVE

7/10/2009 | Share this article:
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By Stephen F. Uhl, Ph.D.

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I am overly fed up with the use of the term, atheism, as a negative epithet. And I am now just about as fed up with how we tolerate eminent humanist writers saying atheism is a negative concept; it may look like a negative word; it is not a negative concept; it is a nonnegative concept.

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