The definition of an Athiest

[sherminator]

Hi guys can you help please? Waldo if you still come on here would love your take on this.

Am on a site which claims that Athiesm is now a religion and whilst I know this to be not true, Someone such as yourself(anyone else plese post as well!) can put it far more eloguently than me!

Thank you

[chakka35]

woofgang, if that was your intention you had a strange way of wording it.

Anyway, the OP's question has been answered several times. My schoolboy Greek tells me that "a" = without and "theos" means god. A atheist is one who doesn't believe in any god. Question answered straightforwardly. What's the problem now?

[woofgang]

<sigh> because that is how folk who post on here define it, not how the person(s) on the other forum define it. if the OP wants to win a debate on that forum, he has to agree the groundwork on that forum...how we define it on here is not relevant.

[wildwood]

There is no such person as an Atheist, only Realists.

Defining atheism as a religion is the same as calling not believing in the tooth fairy a religion.

[RATTER15]

Wildwood, you have hit the nail right on the head!!

A realist!!

I have always said t there is no such thing as a religious realist!

[davelee]

I think atheism is all about reasoning. It cannot be a religion.

[RATTER15]

LoftyLottie. >>>>>>>>>I just don't know! I don't understand how anybody can be so adamant that they are right<<<<<<<<<<

I imagine that you are quite adamant that the Tooth Fairy the Easter Bunny the Flying Spaghetti Monster does not exist.

Most Atheists see any God as being just absurd as these. an absolute crazy nonsense

[WaldoMcFroog]

Rather than defining what atheism is - done to death - why not define what a religion *is*? It will then be even more mind-spankingly obvious than it is already why atheism is not one.

[mibn2cweus]

It can be helpful for understanding the meaning of terms in relationship and contrast to what they are not. I've come to distinguish the following sets of terms as opposites:

lies ~ truth
faith ~ reason
theism ~ atheism
religion ~ philosophy
ignorance ~ knowledge

Atheism does not necessarily imply a belief system, but it is an essential part of a comprehensive belief system for living in a world in which mysticism and religion have and continue to have a profoundly devastating influence on events which affect our lives.

If religion has proven anything, it is that the desire to fight the 'good fight' is simply not enough. One must first learn to understand and distinguish the difference between what is good and what is evil, which is in essence what the 'good fight' is all about. For until one knows what it is one truly knows and how, one can only guess as to whether or not one is one's own worst enemy in the battle for truth and good and to insure that reason prevails.

[Old_Geezer]

Whoever told you that the Flying Spaghetti Monster does not exist ?
Blasphemy !

[mibn2cweus]

. . . not me! Any Pastafarian worth their weight in meatballs can provide incontrovertible evidence for the existence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster on the shirt worn at their last supper - http://1.bp.blogspot....188142167qmkd_400.jpg

[Ankou]

i would say most people on here are more your everyday inactive antitheist.

nuffink wrong with that but its a bit more specific than 'absence of theistic belief'.

[tweaker]

I don't believe there is a "definition" of an athiest. Either a believer or non believer. It shows either way how Inconfident the human race is— We are alone, and "God" is created....