RE: Beginner's Guide to Atheism.
January 20, 2018 at 1:05 am
(This post was last modified: January 20, 2018 at 1:07 am by Cyberman.)
(January 20, 2018 at 1:01 am)Tizheruk Wrote:(January 20, 2018 at 12:55 am)Cyberman Wrote: 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
Also correct. Autism, as poor old Nephy learned, is not a belief in auts. I just didn't fancy posting that image again.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
