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Disbelievers?
I was raised an atheist, culturally identified, Jew. My experience of the world continues to evolve, of course, but at the moment I'd say I identify as an atheist person of faith who is committed to Shambhala practice and still identifies culturally as a Jew. I'm not really sure what that all means to readers, but I will say that I find it really nasty to call folks "disbelievers." 'Atheist' does the trick nicely, without defining people in dismissively negative terms. 'Humanist' is also a nice term, or even something awkward and a little silly like 'evidencist.' But any term that begins with a negating prefix seems to me like rhetorical gesture of aggression, and I don't like it. Nope.