> Marilyn Harris wrote:
> >I'm not sure what type of person a non-theist would be. Usually, people 
> >who
> >do not live under the belief of a god, are atheists?
>
> You are write "usually," but as I have already posted humanists also do 
> not believe in a supreme being or an after life. And they would resent 
> being called atheists. A supreme being (or beings) and an after life are 
> fundamental to all regular religions.

Yes but the dictionary defines an atheist as someone who does not believe in 
a god. So therefore, by your own definition of humanists, they are, whether 
they resent it or not.

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/atheist?region=us

If they resent it then this is what I meant by the term politically 
correct - in other words terms that are applied so as not of offend, but 
instead have a muddying effect in conversation/writing.

Marilyn