RE: Atheism, Scientific Atheism and Antitheism
January 17, 2015 at 12:39 pm
(This post was last modified: January 17, 2015 at 12:41 pm by bennyboy.)
(January 17, 2015 at 12:30 pm)helyott Wrote:Not quite complete.(January 17, 2015 at 11:42 am)tantric Wrote: Okay, about god being evil, way back when while I was exploring mythopoesis as an art form, I wrote a little story meant to be a creation myth for vegetarians and mixed-race folks. I don't believe it to be true in anyway, except perhaps symbolically, but the part about God and Death might amuse y'all. Here it is - the history of the Ohsaycanyousea people.
The word Atheism is coming from the ancient greek : A = without Theos = God.
An Atheist is somebody living whithout god.
Some antitheists are looking religious people as superstitious one's.
Atheism is a ternary form derived in one of the following ways:
1) (a + theos) + ism = the belief or doctrine that there is no God
2) a + (theos + ism) = a + (theism) = the lack of a belief in or doctrine about God
(1) is usually called "hard atheism" and (2) is called "soft atheism."
Keep in mind that there were no accidental "happen not to believe" when the term was first coined. There could only at that time have been a willful refusal to believe.
