RE: Greetings Atheists
October 12, 2011 at 3:48 pm
(This post was last modified: October 12, 2011 at 3:49 pm by frankiej.)
Quote:OK, lets settle this once and for all.Yeah.... we know....
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'.
Cunt