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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean I also don't walk around with shirts saying "I don't watch football".  Generally you don't advertise a negative.[/quote]

Sounds like you see not believing in God as a negative.  I don't.[/quote]

No, a negative as in "proving a negative." An absence. 
[b]People don't wear T shirts announcing the things they don't believe, [/b]or don't care about, or don't feel are worth mentioning. [/quote]

In which planet do you live?! Here on Earth, I see antiracism shirts, anti bigotry shirts, etc, etc.  People announce what they don't believe all the time.[/quote]

Those are things they believe. I believe in anti racism, that's not the same as disbelieving racism or not being invested one way or the other in racism. An equivalent would I guess be anti-theism, which I suppose some atheists are. But most non-believers just don't care. They are not anti-religion, they are a-religious. [/quote]

What about a tee shirt you picked up at a convention?  Could be any convention, but in this case it's a meeting of the American atheist association.  Some people might be hesitant to wear that around town.[/quote]

Most atheists don't go to those conferences.  Regular assembly isn't really an atheist thing.  We'll be at brunch or hiking on mornings religious people go to church.[/quote]

Who would go to those things?  Sundays are for sleeping in, catching up on housework or driving kids to activities.[/quote]

Conventions are just once a year.[/quote]

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