RE: Beginner's Guide to Atheism.
January 19, 2018 at 1:32 pm
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2018 at 1:42 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(January 19, 2018 at 11:58 am)KevinM1 Wrote: Huggy's right in that 'ism' denotes a system. That system is theism. The prefix 'a' is negation. So, 'atheism' literally means 'not-theism' just like 'amoral' means 'not-moral' in the sense of being not connected to/involved with those things rather than in a pejorative sense (which would be 'antitheism' and 'immoral' respectively).
No dummy, 'atheism' (a = without, theos = god, ism = system) literally means a 'system without god'. A theist can believe a god exists without being religious, but theism is a system based around a belief in god also known as religion. If an atheist is one who simply holds no beliefs in a god, then atheism is a system based on the non-belief of gods... Got it?
Atheist religions exist, this is fact.
That being the case, under which category would an atheist religion be filed, theism or atheism?
(January 19, 2018 at 11:58 am)KevinM1 Wrote: Aside: moments like these are why my calls for certain people to go back to school are 100% serious.
It seems you should be the first volunteer...
