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# One who lacks belief in the [[existence]] of [[God]], [[god]], [[Gods]] or [[gods]].
# One who does not have a belief in the [[existence]] of [[God]], [[god]], [[Gods]] or [[gods]].
#* '''1772''', Paul Henry Thiry baron d'Holbach, ''Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas'', chapter 30:
#* '''1772''', Paul Henry Thiry baron d'Holbach, ''Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas'', chapter 30:
#*: All children are born '''Atheists'''; they have no idea of God.
#*: All children are born '''Atheists'''; they have no idea of God.
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#* '''2006''', Richard Dawkins, ''The God Delusion'', page 51:
#* '''2006''', Richard Dawkins, ''The God Delusion'', page 51:
#*: '''Atheists''' do not have faith; and reason alone could not propel one to total conviction that anything definitely does not exist.
#*: '''Atheists''' do not have faith; and reason alone could not propel one to total conviction that anything definitely does not exist.
# Especially, one who [[lack]]s any [[religious]] [[belief]]; an [[irreligious]] person.
# Especially, one who does not have any [[religious]] [[belief]]; an [[irreligious]] person.
# One who [[believe]]s that no [[deity|deities]] exist.
# One who [[believe]]s that no [[deity|deities]] exist.
#* '''1876''', Thomas H. Gladstone, ''Contemporary Review'', June 22:
#* '''1876''', Thomas H. Gladstone, ''Contemporary Review'', June 22:
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====Translations====
====Translations====
{{trans-top|one who lacks belief in the existence of God, god, Gods or gods}}
{{trans-top|one who does not have a belief in the existence of God, god, Gods or gods}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|ملحد|m|tr=múlHid}}, {{t-|ar|كافر|m|tr=kaafir}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|ملحد|m|tr=múlHid}}, {{t-|ar|كافر|m|tr=kaafir}}
* Armenian: {{t-|hy|աթեիստ|tr=at’eist}}, {{t|hy|անաստված|tr=anastvaç}}
* Armenian: {{t-|hy|աթեիստ|tr=at’eist}}, {{t|hy|անաստված|tr=anastvaç}}

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Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French (deprecated template usage) athéiste ((deprecated template usage) athée + (deprecated template usage) -iste) < (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) atheos < (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek (deprecated template usage) ἄθεος (atheos) < (deprecated template usage) ἀ- (a-) + (deprecated template usage) θεός (theos)..

Pronunciation

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Noun

atheist (plural atheists)

  1. One who does not have a belief in the existence of God, god, Gods or gods.
    • 1772, Paul Henry Thiry baron d'Holbach, Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas, chapter 30:
      All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
    • 1930, Bhagat Singh, Why I am an atheist?,
      That very day certain police officials began to persuade me to offer my prayers to God regularly both the times. Now I was an atheist. I wanted to settle for myself whether it was in the days of peace and enjoyment alone that I could boast of being an atheist or whether during such hard times as well I could stick to those principles of mine. After great consideration I decided that I could not lead myself to believe in and pray to God. No, I never did. That was the real test and I came, out successful.
    • 2006, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, page 51:
      Atheists do not have faith; and reason alone could not propel one to total conviction that anything definitely does not exist.
  2. Especially, one who does not have any religious belief; an irreligious person.
  3. One who believes that no deities exist.
    • 1876, Thomas H. Gladstone, Contemporary Review, June 22:
      By the Atheist I understand the man who not only holds off, like the sceptic, from the affirmative, but who drives himself, or is driven, to the negative assertion in regard to the whole Unseen, or to the existence of God.
    • 1940, C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain:
      Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
    • 2002, Richard Dawkins, "Dawkins: an atheist's call to arms":
      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.
    • 2004, Armand M. Nicholi Jr., "Introduction: Definition and Significance of a Worldview", chapter 1 of Allan M. Josephson and John R. Peteet (editors), Handbook of Spirituality and Worldview in Clinical Practice, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., ISBN 978-1-58562-104-0, page 5:
      Many have wondered why Freud called himself an atheist and not an agnostic. Because a negative is impossible to prove, the position of atheism, which holds that God does not exist, is untenable on strictly logical grounds.
    • 2006, John R. Mabry quoting "Pam" and "Leslie", in Faith Styles: Ways People Believe, Church Publishing, Inc., ISBN 9780819222220, page 117:
      "But you've been thinking about it more, now? If you're not an atheist, what are you?"
      "I'm an agnostic. That's like Atheism Lite, I think. I don't know if there is a god, but I don't know if there isn't a god, either. […] "
    • 2008, Jon M. Sweeney, Almost Catholic: An Appreciation of the History, Practice, and Mystery of Ancient Faith, John Wiley and Sons, ISBN 978-0-7879-9470-9, page 23:
      I would rather have the pews full of angry atheists and questioning agnostics than of certain or sleepy believers on any given Sunday or Saturday night.

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Translations

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See also

Adjective

atheist (comparative more atheist, superlative most atheist)

  1. Of or relating to atheists or atheism; atheistic.

Translations

relating to atheists — see atheistic

Anagrams

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