What is Atheism?

[televator]

Your bravado does not render Negative prefixes meaningless.
like it or not, they exist within this langauge. If they do not exist elsewhere, that is simply a limitation of said langauges capacity
to express things.
Atheism does not stem from "Teos" it stems from "theos" It is a general useage term which applies to any deities, not
merely yahweh, for example it could also apply to Ashera whom Once upon a time was Yahwehs wife within the Henotheistic
pantheon of ancient israel.

Infact Atheos IS a greek word in of itself.

Like it or not This langauge Has negative prefixes.
such as Atypical "not typical" or Asymmetrical "not symmetrical" or Atheism "not theism"
We also have Other prefixes such as "non" which are similar.

If atheism means Non-theism it may well mean "a negative belief!"
That is really atheism, in accordance with the dictionary definition, from in most countries. Therefore, the term "lack of faith" can not define atheism, because this term is a privilege of the English language.

So you highlight the part about the Greek root word for atheism that clarifies its definition, but then turn around and call that very definition a "privilege of the English language"? Make up your mind. It's clearly demonstrated now that atheism means what it means down to its Greek root and you have no other logical option than to accept that truth....but I would bet money on you choosing the illogical path instead.

 

[Magorian Aximand]

Your argument is very poor!
The idea that all evil comes from religion, and that a society without religion would necessarily be better!
led to massacres:
French Revolution, the Paris Commune, China's Cultural Revolution, or the Gosateizm from the Soviet Union and all the satellite countries,the Cristero War (1926 /1929)

Lol, where did I say that all evil comes from religion? I'll give you a hint: I didn't. Religion does directly cause evil however, while atheism does not. Most of the things you listed have nothing to do with religious troubles at all, only the Gosateizm and the Cristero War, but those cannot be linked as something that necessarily follows from atheism. The Cristero War was a result of religious intolerance, and there is nothing about not believing in God that prescribes that we should enforce not believing in God, so Stalin's actions there are not a result of his being an atheist.

And yet I can list you any number of things that are a direct result of scripture, and happened for no other reason. Like the pope's lies in Africa that condoms actually increase your chances of contracting HIV, or even now just the insistence that such an AIDS ridden place avoid contraception.

 

[Gnug215]

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Atheist say it is a "lack of faith"
I say that it is a "lack of culture"

Here's a made up quote from some random person:

Theist say it's a "faith in God"
I say it's a psychologically infantile belief in a sky spirit to comfort the weak.

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Do you see what happens when we pull up definition ex rectum?

This thread is a farce, and it turned from asinine personal definitions (or, singular, really) to a "my-country-is-better-than-your-country" slugfest.

Your posts are troll posts, and it stops now. If you want to stay on this site, you'll post reasonable, productive posts, and not juvenile, inflammatory nonsense.

You have been warned.

And this thread has now been locked.