Look up: Atheism

1. atheism
   [n] - the doctrine or belief that there is no God 2. [n] - a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods
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2. Atheism
   Derived from the Greek a = not and theos = god: not-god. An atheist does not believe in god or postulate the existence of gods or spiritual beings. Christian religious teachers often give an incorrect derivation of atheism from the Greek anti = against and theos = god: against-god. Presumably this is done to suggest that atheists are evil.
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3. atheism
   Nonbelief in, or the positive denial of, the existence of a God or gods. A related concept is agnosticism. Like theism, its opposite, atheism cannot be proved or disproved conclusively. Perhaps the...
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4. Atheism
   A'the·ism noun [ Confer French athéisme . See Atheist .] 1. The disbelief or denial of the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being. « Atheism is a ferocious system, that leaves nothing above us to excite awe...
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5. atheism
   godlessness noun the doctrine or belief that there is no God
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6. Atheism
   • (n.) Godlessness. • (n.) The disbelief or denial of the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being.
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7. atheism
   in general, the critique and denial of metaphysical beliefs in God or spiritual beings. As such, it is usually distinguished from theism, which ... [12 related articles]
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8. atheism
   atheism Godlessness, disbelief in, or denial of, the existence of a God or gods.
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9. atheism
   
   • the doctrine or belief that there is no God
   • a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods
   
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10. atheism
    atheism (ā'thē-iz"um) , denial of the existence of God or gods and of any supernatural existence, to be distinguished from agnosticism, which holds that the existence cannot be proved. The term atheism has been used as an accusation against all who attack established orthodoxy, a...
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11. Atheism
    (Gr. a, no; theos, god) Two uses of the term: The belief that there is no God. Some philosophers have been called 'atheistic' because they have not held to a belief in a personal God. Atheism in this sense means 'not theistic.' The former meaning of the term is a literal rendering. The latter meaning is a less rigorous use of the term although w...
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12. Atheism
    Atheism is the disbelief or denial of a god or gods. Throughout history the Christian church persecuted those who refuted the existence of a god, making such disbelief a crime punishable by death. Islam similarly punishes Muslims who disbelieve or question the teachings of it's prophet Mohammed, with death and non-Muslims with life imprisonment.
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13. atheism
    Nonbelief in, or the positive denial of, the existence of a God or gods. A related concept is agnosticism. Like theism, its opposite, atheism cannot be proved or disproved conclusively. Perhaps the strongest atheistic argument concerns the existence of evil, which is hard to reconcile with the notio...
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14. atheism
    the doctrine or belief that there is no God or gods.
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15. Atheism
    `Atheism` is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities.<ref name=RoweRoutledge> Most inclusively, atheism is simply the absence of belief that any deities exist. Atheism is contrasted...
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