Re: Glasgow Herald 30th Jan. Dodgy answer

On Jan 30, 5:43 pm, "rthea...@xxxxxxxxxxx" <rthea...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 30 Jan, 16:27, Flying Tortoise <purple....@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ah, right, thank-you. OP is strictly speaking right but it is a very
fine distinction. I suspect that many self-appointed atheists are in
truth of the alternative persuasion in reality, for example.

Is there any other way to be an atheist?

Roy

There's only one way to be an atheist but few 'atheists' are on it!
Sadly the English language doesn't have a word for this 'third way',
though anti-theist gets a bit nearer, but that merely proves my point
that, in practice, there is usually very little distinction made
between the 'a' and the 'un', 'in' and 'im' prefixes.
.

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