Green Oasis

Daylight Atheism (an excellent blog) has announced The Humanist Symposium, a new, recurring collection of atheist writing with an uplifting purpose:

Rather than general posts on atheism and religion, the purpose of the Humanist Symposium will be specifically to defend and uphold atheism as a positive worldview of morality, reason and purpose, a desirable and attractive alternative to belief systems based on religion.

I hope the symposium is a great success. We atheists will do much better at overcoming popular supernaturalism and superstition if we stop defining ourselves in contrast to theism. We need to spread the good word about the positive aspects of living a life without a god.

By labeling myself as an atheist, I’m making my job harder because that term centers around what I don’t believe. Instead, I should focus on what I do believe. I could call myself a naturalist humanist more appropriately and begin to get across what brings me joy and purpose.