On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 2:58 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9/8/2012 10:17 AM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 11:12 AM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Jason Resch <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> > Bruno makes a valid point, that you attack only the weakest, most ill >>> conceived, notion(s) of God. >>> >> >> It is my habit to attack only the weakest parts of ideas, attacking the >> strongest parts seems rather counterproductive because they may actually be >> true. >> > > You call yourself an atheist, which means you reject every notion of > God, of any religion, does it not? > > > A-theist means not believing a theist god exists; > Interesting, I was not aware that this level of distinction existed, but it seems implied in first definition of "theist" here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/theist?s=t However, the definition for "atheist" in the world English dictionary (lower on the page here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/atheist?s=t ) Simply says "A person who does not believe in God or gods". Is there any word for someone who rejects both theism and deism? > one that's an extremely powerful person who wants to be worshipped and is > extremely concerned with how we behave, especially while nude. An atheist > might believe in a deist god; one who created the world and then just left > it alone and isn't concerned with us. > I think such a person would more rightly label himself a deist in that case, but we might be digressing too deeply into the subtleties of language. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
