Non religious adoption

NJNative and fearoflight - that's exactly what I was thinking when I said "negative connotations". Where I live (as previously stated, pretty rural) atheist has always been synonymous with godless-heathen-evil-satanist-etc. So that's the main reason I shy away from the word in day-to-day life and why we didn't say it in our adoption profile.Our PBM isn't that concerned with religion per se, as much as values but I think she and her mom would probably recoiled a bit if we had said "we're atheists".