alt.atheist

English

Etymology

Blend of alt.atheism +‎ atheist.

Noun

alt.atheist (plural alt.atheists)

1. (Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup alt.atheism.
   • 1990 September 21, Jim Perry, “Front-door Atheism”, in alt.atheism‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

     What alt.atheists believe. (To clarify, I am coining a new term "alt.atheist" to avoid the baggage of existing terms).

   • 1997 October 14, MindFlayer, “Atheists and Aliens”, in alt.paranormal‎^[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

     The thing is that atheists (or, at least, alt.atheists) do not hold science as religion, but as science. Science-as-religion is held by some half-assedly-educated laymen, of which you do not see many here (your opinion of somne alt.atheists notwithstanding).

   • 2002 February 12, Tichy, “Grading Alt.atheism's use of the Twit List”, in alt.atheism‎^[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

     Irrelevant. The persons whose behavior *is* described in my posts *are* numbered alt.atheists. No matter how many alt.atheists don't do X, the fact that two or more do X enables me to truthfully say that alt.atheists do X. As I showed in my example, *you* are the one making the generalization based upon the specifics.
     I am consistently referring to specifics.

   • 2005 April 5, keit...@yahoo.com, “The Atheist Lie”, in alt.atheism‎^[4] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

     > I don't consider myself an alt.atheist. I consider myself an atheist who posts to alt.atheist. There are other things I do besides this, y'know, and it's incorrect to say that I'm an "alt.atheist", as if it is something different than "regular atheist".
     I wasn't trying to say different. By alt.atheist I meant the typical atheist I have meet at alt.atheism. I am not saying that alt.atheists are different in any other way.

   • 2014 June 17, jackpi...@gmail.com, “How many alt.atheists does ot take to screw in a lightbulb?”, in alt.atheism‎^[5] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

     Everyone who jabs at alt.atheists is a Christian.