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Negative Connotation with the word "Atheist"?

Asked by comicalmayhem (809points) September 25th, 2011

Why does the word “Atheist” have such a negative connotation?

Even as an agnostic, watching a video on the American Atheists website that had people saying “I’m and American Atheist” made me cringe and have a prejudice that they’re bad people, but I know they’re not. I either cringed because of the negative connotation or I was shocked at the diversity in Atheism.
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