Letters to the Editor
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Denial
Am I the only person that gets mad when somebody calls themselves an atheist? That's a specific title saying that you don't believe in any God(s). The title is a negative. It's an active state of denial.
Pretty much everybody is an atheist. The vast majority of Christians don't believe in the divinity of Zeus, to name just one obvious example. An atheist merely has one less god than a Christian. I fail to see how they're anymore living in a "state of denial" than any Christian. Or Muslim. Or Jew. Or whatever.
Further, they are unable to acknowledge the limits of conventional science to explain the whole of reality.
What exactly are these limits? And what part of reality has religion successfully explained? I certainly don't pray my car to work in the morning. Burning incense doesn't keep our nuclear power plants running.