"animus" can also mean "hostility", though. Yeah I'd sooner use it to describe a golem's motivation, but that's an unrelated "animus".
I basically never see it used as anything except indicating hostility, heh. Y'all mentioning it reminded me animus/anima is a thing (and also reminds me piers anthony exists, so damn the both of you
yesthisisajoke. barely.), but I've never thought of that usage as the primary one. Discussion of metaphysical animating forces doesn't seem to come up as often as fancy terms for disliking people...
Any case, wierd had it, more or less. Way to rephrase it is that A* folks have roughly as much reason to be pissed off and swearing at
any religious group as they do at christians or christians do at non-christians, since with rare exception all of the latter lot shit on the first about as hard.
It's fairly expected that a secular inclined individual will be roughly as likely as a non-secular one to be spitting religiously charged vulgarities, basically. Reasons for intergroup hostility (and by extension slurs based on religious belief in one way or another) on religious grounds don't exactly reduce in either direction just because one isn't particularly religion inclined or the other isn't part of the local majority religion,* heh.
... also @helg, I think I like it, too. It's kinda' annoying to refer to atheists and agnostics at the same time given most shared descriptors you could use are invalidated by one lot or another, so letter + wildcard is a good bit
lazier quicker and easier. Dunno if it's used much or not, that post was the first time I got fed up enough with trying to remember an appropriate one to use the shorthand.
* Though, that said, from what I understand about what minority status tends to do to societal rampancy it probably does reduce friction between them and other demographics fairly often. Religious group keeping their head down isn't quite as likely to be pissing off or pissing on someone, least so long as no one's latched on to them as a scapegoat or somethin'.
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Anywaaaaay. Today's the day we get to find out if alabama really
does prefer pedophilia to democrat party affiliation. Given how wack the polling seems to be, it could be an interesting day, one way or another.
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