(August 8, 2013 at 2:38 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(August 8, 2013 at 11:00 am)Texas Sailor Wrote: Actually, the suffix (-ist) denotes a person. Plus, everyone knows that all dogs go to heaven anyway.
-ist
a suffix of nouns, often corresponding to verbs ending in -ize or nouns ending in -ism, that denote a person who practices or is concerned with something, or holds certain principles, doctrines, etc.: apologist; dramatist; machinist; novelist; realist; socialist; Thomist.
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"atheist" is actually a ternary form, and is ambiguous: a + the(os) + ist
1) a + theist (not a person who ascribes to the idea of "God")
2) athe(os) + ist (one who ascribes to the idea of "not God")
(1) is often referred to as soft atheism, and (2) as hard atheism. Most atheists these days, I think, are soft atheists, because why bother trying to prove a negative position when it's easier to make the guy telling fairy tales take the BOP?
I don't understand why they get the "Bind on Pickup" item


Any spelling mistakes are due to my godlessness!