Reply #152: I'm not trying to define you; you are attempting to re-define atheism [View All]

[kwassa]

to be something it is not, according to general usage.

Why choose atheism as the word to represent your "lack of belief" belief, when the word is already in use to describe something else? Why not create a new word to describe the position that you and others that share your belief have?

This is one part of the part of this argument I really don't get, is the need to use a word that the world uses to mean something else. Has the English language run out of the capacity to develop new words?