I'm not always comfortable being publicly identified as an atheist.
The label is accurate enough; I don't think that any God or other supernatural entities exist. But the word "atheist" has other connotations as well, and I don't always want to take them on board or fight against them.
For example, in a piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education that quotes me, there is this paragraph:
Now, the
Published on June 22, 2011 13:56