Atheism and morality

[Inigo]

Theist = believing in at least one God.

I am a theist if that's what you mean by the term.

I am not a theist if one uses 'theist' to refer to the 'theistic' god. The theistic god has three attributes: omniscience, omnipotence and perfect moral goodness.

I am also a theist if 'theist' means 'man sat in a chair' for I believe in one of those as well.

I am also a theist if 'theist' is used to mean 'someone who believes he has some cheese in the fridge'.

I am not a theist if one uses 'theist' to mean 'someone who believes he has some edam in the fridge'.

And so on and so on.

I use 'theist' to mean 'believes in the existence of a theistic god'. If you don't use it that way, I don't care. That's how I use it and it is how I intend on continuing using it, so get used to it.

By all means find some dictionary and look it up and gleefully tell me that Mr Dictionary says something different. I don't care. Dictionaries just follow popular usage and popular usage is often confused, misleading and silly because the population is largely composed of people who possess those attributes.