Atheism's Definition - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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When the definition of your belief doesn't match the dictionary, it's time to consider picking a new word to name your belief.

I recommend agnosticism, because it is essentially the same as "lacks belief in God."

I mean, doesn't it strike you as questionable that you're basically trying to redefine a word so you can apply it to yourself?

Doesn't it strike you as questionable that just a post ago you were telling me you just wanted us to examine our beliefs as much as we want theists to, and now you just seem to care about definitions?

And frankly, I find it particularly interesting that you'll give us all such a hard time over the definition of atheism, and then stop dead at even looking at the definition of agnosticism, which in the beginning, was a rejection of knowledge of the spiritual or mystic.

This puts us in a fun little double whammy for you, where on the first count, you're guilty of using a definition of a word that's changed from its initial usage, and therefore have no grounds to be bitching at us for doing the same with atheism, but now that you're educated on what the coiner of the word originally meant- since you're so down on changing the definitions of words- you'll happily allow us to use the more accurate double-term that we use now: I'm an agnostic atheist, wherein I don't claim absolute knowledge over my disbelief in god. Happy?