(September 28, 2011 at 11:58 am)Jaysyn Wrote:(September 28, 2011 at 11:52 am)leo-rcc Wrote: Easy to glance over the "or disbelieve" part isn't it when it suits your needs?
Have we had one yet that doesn't do just that? Comes with the brainwashing I think.
OK, lets settle this once and for all.
The word atheist is Greek. The 'a' part means without, it's called a 'privative a'. Words with this 'privative a' are easily recognizable - asexual means without sex, amoral means without morality etc.
I believe the following website may be of use to you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism
"an agnostic is someone who neither believes nor disbelieves there is a God, whereas an atheist disbelieves there is a God."
"Within agnosticism there are agnostic atheists (who do not believe any deity exists, but do not deny it as a possibility)"
Regardless of what you want 'atheist' to mean it will always mean 'without God'. Even if you only consider there to be a 1 in a million chance God exists you are an agnostic. Accept this terminology, you can't ague that the word 'up' means 'down'.
