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You could call a non-Jew a gentile. You could call a non-white a minority. Terms describing what one is not are common. Atheist isn't necessarily one of these terms, though. From my experience, an atheist disbelieves the existence of god. It isn't simply "this person isn't religious", it's "this person does not currently recognize the existence of god". There's a big difference there. I think nonreligious is the term of exclusion in play, not atheist.
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