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what exactly defines an atheist.....

  • 23-12-2009 1:12am
    #1
    pacman.podge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 130 ✭✭


    hey just curious into what exactly an atheist is... iv looked it up numerous times on the web and tbh cannot understand it!! cannot get a definition in plain understandable English


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  • #2
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    One simple idea.

    Lack of belief in God(s).
    The concept shouldn't even exist ffs.



    You can still be an atheist and be a spiritualist.
    You can still be an atheist and be buddhist.
    You can still be an atheist and be Christian! (Bizarre I know- But If you follow Jesus..)
    You can still be an atheist and be pro-life.
    You can still be an atheist and be anti-life.
    You can still be an atheist and be a pacifist.
    You can still be an atheist and be anti-science.

    Hopefully that illustrates it.
    One Simple idea : Lack of belief in God.


  • #3
    pacman.podge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 130 ✭✭pacman.podge


    the answer that i was looking for!!! cheers!!:D


  • #4
    pH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭pH


    Well the whole deism thing complicates it a bit.

    A theist is someone who believes in a personal intervening type of God, like Christians and Muslims for example.

    So a person who answers "yes" to "Do you believe in a personal intervening God?" - is a theist, anyone giving any other answer to that question, be it "No", "Maybe" or "Wibble" is not a theist - hence an atheist.


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