(October 2, 2013 at 3:31 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Again you're not getting that ATHEISM DOES NOT CONSIST OF THE CLAIM THAT THERE ABSOLUTELY ARE NO GODS ANYWHERE. Atheism is simply not believing in any gods, period. I don't know why you and other Christians on this forum can't seem to understand that.
maybe because of these sources that prove you wrong.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=atheist
Quote:‘Atheism’ means the negation of theism, the denial of the existence of God.http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/atheism-agnosticism/
Quote:[atheism] The term atheism comes from the Greek word atheos, meaning godless. Atheos is derived from a, meaning "without," and theos, meaning "deityhttp://www.pluralism.org/resources/tradi...theism.php
and many others. I don't feel like creating an exhaustive list just so you can ignore it.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
-Galileo
-Galileo