It's time. A Protestant hasn't been nominated to the Supreme Court for almost 32 years

[Hortensis]

67. We don't know. Most sensible people who don't believe

in a deity and do lead public lives don't make a big thing of their lack of "faith."

When religion is not what you're about, you don't want others making you about it either. And that involves not letting others turn your disinterest in religion what you're about. I look for signs of religious involvement in their history instead.

As for actually labeling oneself "atheist," I wonder how many people do. You seldom hear it. Wouldn't thoughtful people who really don't care nevertheless first feel obliged to see what it means before slapping it on as a label? Which school of religious-intensity atheistic belief should they adopt after lengthy study? My beliefs on such things could far more accurately be summed up as "beats me" and that's as far as my delving goes. Disinterest is the opposite of religion, not atheism.