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By Jim Downard
The following is not meant to be read as a pedantic question. Why do you sometimes capitalize “atheist(s)”?
I don’t as a rule capitalize atheist(s), at least in my original draft texts. Atheism (we’re at the start of a sentence here, so it gets capitalized that way) is not a doctrine apart from lack of believe in supernatural entities. To what extent style manuals want to gussy it up with a capitalization, that’s not something that troubles me. Everybody is an atheist regarding all the god(s) they never end up believing in. Whether it changes much to say that everybody is an Atheist on that, is up to others to worry about.
