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When, Where, How and Why did you become Atheist?
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RE: When, Where, How and Why did you become Atheist?
October 7, 2015 at 12:34 pm (This post was last modified: October 7, 2015 at 12:38 pm by bambi_swag.)
(October 7, 2015 at 9:59 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: I'm going to be a contrarian (and pedant) and disagree with the general consensus that rocks and babies are atheists. They are non-theists, certainly, but also non-atheists. The term atheist was coined before the word 'theist'. We often assume it comes from 'a-theist', or 'not a theist'. However it was originally constructed as 'athe-ist'. 'Without God' plus the suffix 'ist', which indicates a person concerned with or interested in whatever precedes it.

An atheist is a person capable of considering the proposition that deities exist, who does not accept that proposition.
Maybe the word "atheomatic" or "atheoical" (sounds like cheese in wood though) would suit babies and rocks better.
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RE: When, Where, How and Why did you become Atheist? - by bambi_swag - October 7, 2015 at 12:34 pm

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