Thursday, September 21, 2006

Dirty Words

Believers say atheism no longer a 'dirty word'

Well first, if they did say such, I suppose that’s very nice of them. In this spirit of random benevolence, I shall declare that cow, sheep, and ice cream are no longer dirty words either.

Second, I can’t find anywhere in the article where believers do say such. I see a quote where Ellen Johnson (clearly an atheist) discusses how atheism used to be a dirty word... but no believers absolving the word from its apparent former state of filthiness.