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Why do theist often drop the letter s when referring to atheists?
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RE: Why do theist often drop the letter s when referring to atheists?
June 2, 2018 at 2:09 pm
They can't grasp the concept except as a religion?
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RE: Why do theist often drop the letter s when referring to atheists?
June 2, 2018 at 2:33 pm
(June 2, 2018 at 8:57 am)Mathilda Wrote: Maybe I should start posting example on this thread whenever I see Christian do it. What do you guy think?

I'm not saying it doesn't happen, I just highly doubt it's done purposely or for any particular reason.
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RE: Why do theist often drop the letter s when referring to atheists?
June 2, 2018 at 2:42 pm
I think there is a tendency among certain theists to use the word atheist as an adjective, as in 'atheist science'. Dropping is a sign of them tending in two directions at once, referring to atheists and describing atheists.
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RE: Why do theist often drop the letter s when referring to atheists?
June 2, 2018 at 2:45 pm
Quote:How agnostic Differs from atheist

Many people are interested in distinguishing between the words agnostic and atheist. The difference is quite simple: atheist refers to someone who believes that there is no god (or gods), and agnostic refers to someone who doesn’t know whether there is a god, or even if such a thing is knowable. This distinction can be troublesome to remember, but examining the origins of the two words can help.

Agnostic first appeared in 1869, (possibly coined by the English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley), and was formed from the Greek agnōstos (meaning "unknown, unknowable"). Atheist came to English from the French athéisme. Although both words share a prefix (which is probably the source of much of the confusion) the main body of each word is quite different. Agnostic shares part of its history with words such as prognosticate and prognosis, words which have something to do with knowledge or knowing something. Atheist shares roots with words such as theology and theism, which generally have something to do with God.


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RE: Why do theist often drop the letter s when referring to atheists?
June 2, 2018 at 2:49 pm
For some it's a lack of education

Others do it just to rile people up

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RE: Why do theist often drop the letter s when referring to atheists?
June 15, 2018 at 2:05 am (This post was last modified: June 15, 2018 at 2:17 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
GC does it all the time.

(June 15, 2018 at 1:03 am)Godscreated Wrote: The atheist here are the ones who embellish themselves and look to be popular and work to make each other so.

(June 15, 2018 at 12:55 am)Godscreated Wrote: and all the other atheist do not believe in a God so they can't.
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RE: Why do theist often drop the letter s when referring to atheists?
June 15, 2018 at 7:44 am
(June 2, 2018 at 2:49 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: For some it's a lack of education

Others do it just to rile people up

How do you figure that it is a lack of education?   Do you mean that they don't realize they are doing it, and need to enlightened to the issue?
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RE: Why do theist often drop the letter s when referring to atheists?
June 15, 2018 at 8:35 am
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RE: Why do theist often drop the letter s when referring to atheists?
June 15, 2018 at 9:29 am
(June 15, 2018 at 7:44 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote:
(June 2, 2018 at 2:49 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: For some it's a lack of education

Others do it just to rile people up

How do you figure that it is a lack of education?   Do you mean that they don't realize they are doing it, and need to enlightened to the issue?

The charitable explanation for someone who does it routinely is that they don't know any better. Is it your position that they're doing it on purpose? Because that's a different kettle of fish.
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RE: Why do theist often drop the letter s when referring to atheists?
June 15, 2018 at 10:16 am (This post was last modified: June 15, 2018 at 10:25 am by Anomalocaris.)
The atheists recognizes the multitude and humanizes the opposition.

The atheist dehumanizes the opposition, diminishes their perceived numbers, shoe horns them into one single entity, and emphasizes what the theist perceive to be a common animating wickedness. It makes both superciliousness and loathing roll more easily off the tongue.

It is much the same as the Nazis propaganda, as well as contemporary neo-Nazi propaganda, refering not to the Jews, but The Jew, when alledging common racial trait justifying the exterminatory antisemetic policies.
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