say yeah, basically, more or less. but if someone said i want you to list all the ways you identify yourself. i would get through pages and pages wildfire i got to that as an identity. i think of so many other things, of so much more core to who i am. why is it important to you as a sort of identity badge and how plausible is it that that can be extended outwards? i think in a per convict world what you said is correct. because what is atheism? a nonbelief. you don t list all the things you don t believe in when you are identifying yourself. yeah, like whoa, here s what i m not. the progressives go through this, too. you know a lot of times we aren t active. progressives or athiests do tend to be apathetic. because we tend to go, what, we re right, why do i have to go outside my breaking bad zone.