Christian Liberals & Progressive People of Faith

Every things is a bell curve. It's where one is on the curve. Words like racist, gay, liberal don't really have the meaning people assign to them. No one is 100% of any of them. They may fall near the very end of the curve, but chances are someone is even further from the top of the curve than another, if not today, tomorrow.
Words are symbols, not the thing or idea. Humans confuse that. We go to war over symbolic lines on a map. In reality there is no difference in the piece of ground or dirt that lies on either side of that line. But because words, we go to war and die over things that don't really exist. We honor, salute and fight for a flag, which is no more than a symbol, it's not the thing.
Secular Humanist is a better term for me than atheist, or Ethical Culture is another interesting idea as most have less strong feelings about those, yet they are same.