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| Substantiv |
| 1. | ateist {en} |
Definitioner
Substantiv
- (narrowly) A person who believes that no deities exist (especially, one who has no other religious belief).
- (broadly) A person who rejects belief that any deities exist (whether or not that person believes that deities do not exist).
- (loosely) A person who has no belief in any deities, such as a person who has no concept of deities.
- (loosely, uncommon) A person who does not believe in a particular deity (or any deity in a particular pantheon), notwithstanding that they may believe in another deity.
Adjektiv
- Of or relating to atheists or atheism; atheistic.
Exempel
- Ageine, the Atheistes, which say in their hartes there is no God; [...]
- An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not.
- Minister—Are you really an Atheist? Atheist—Yes. M.—Do you deny that there is a god? A.—No. I deny that there is sufficient reason to believe there is one. There may be a god, but I think it rather unlikely.
- Very low probability, but short of zero. De facto atheist. ‘I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.’
- All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God. Are they then criminal on account of their ignorance?
- Atheists. One who does not believe in the existence of a Supreme Being, an atheist, is incompetent as a witness, being incapable of being sworn. [...] Changed by Acts of 1851, No. 12 (P. S. 1593), under which, no question can be raised as to a witness's "opinions on matters of religious belief."
- Malice and pejudice concurred in representing the christians as a society of atheists, who, by the most daring attack on the religious constitution of the empire, had merited the severest animadversion of the civil magistrate.
- An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. As has been said before, we are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
- He would have been seven times more Epicure and atheist than he was.
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