(January 20, 2018 at 12:55 am)Cyberman Wrote:(January 18, 2018 at 10:50 am)Huggy74 Wrote: Also I don't agree that atheism is ONLY not having beliefs in a god, if one wants to be technical, the -ism in atheism denotes a system, this is why I say atheism is indicative of a religion.
Correct - the '-ism' suffix is indicative of a belief system. It's attached to the 'theism' part of the word, to which the 'a-' prefix is the negation. Welcome to this, the very first post you've obviously ever read on this forum.
But ism can also be a state or a condition
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