atheism

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That's my experience, and my atheism is a reflection of that experience, a way of keeping faith with it.

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  1. noun Disbelief in or denial of the existence of God or gods.
  2. noun The doctrine that there is no God or gods.

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  • The examples of violence you cite do not support the claim that atheism is the cause or the galvanizing force for their demagoguery any more than any other random correlation, like moustaches and funny haircuts. —  The J Curve
  • They were not setting out to convert others to atheism, and it was not a critical issue in their rhetoric. —  The J Curve
  • If atheism is the answer to all the killing and animosity that religion causes, then why is the only example of a large scale atheist society responsible for more murder and oppression that Hitler was (the USSR)? —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • What annoys me most about her article is that she seems to assume that a scientific theory needs an ethical standpoint or basis in some sort of worldview - be it atheism, abolitionism or anything else. —  Planet Atheism
  • Baby Killing, same sex acceptance, and atheism are all things frowned upon in the bible. —  American and Proud
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  1. French athéisme, from athée, atheist, from Greek atheos, godless : a-, without; see a-1 + theos, god; see dhēs- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French athéisme = Portuguese atheismo = Spanish Italian ateismo, from New Latin *atheismus, from Greek ἄθεος, without a god, denying the gods, from ἀ- privative + θεός, a god. The Greek term for atheism was ἀθεότης.
 

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/ˈeɪθəɪzm/
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