(December 3, 2011 at 4:11 pm)Ace Otana Wrote: Shut up. I'm finished debating with you. Believe what you want.
Debate the facts then:
"Atheism, from the Greek a-theos ("no-god") is the philosophical position that God doesn't exist. It is distinguished from agnosticism, the argument that it is impossible to know whether God exists or not"
(Academic American Encyclopedia)
Atheism, system of thought developed around the denial of God's existence. Atheism, so defined, first appeared during the Enlightement, the age of reason"
(Random House Encyclopedia-1977)
Atheism is the doctrine that there is no God. Some atheists support this claim by arguments, but these arguments are usually directed against the Christian concept of God, and are largely irrelevant to other possible gods.
(Oxford Companion to Philosophy-1995)
Atheism (Greek, a- [private prefix] + theos, god) is the view that there is no divine being, no God"
(Dictionary of Philosophy, Thomas Mautner, Editor-1996)
Atheism is the belief that God doesn't exist.
(The World Book Encyclopedia-1991)
According to the most usual definition, an atheist is a person who maintains that there is no god.
(The Encyclopedia of Philosophy-1967)
Atheism denies the existence of deity
(Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia-Vol I)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03pyLpdbA...sults_main
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