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atheism Nov 1st 2011, 09:14 Noun: Dan Barker ← Older revision Revision as of 09:14, 1 November 2011 Line 167: Line 167: | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=1XpbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA114 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=1XpbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA114 | passage = '''Atheism''' expresses, not the denial, but the absence of God—''i.e.'', the absence of him from our knowledge—or the absence of belief in God. | passage = '''Atheism''' expresses, not the denial, but the absence of God—''i.e.'', the absence of him from our knowledge—or the absence of belief in God.   + }}   + #* {{quote-book   + | date = 2008-09-01   + | title = Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists   + | first = Dan   + | last = Barker   + | authorlink = Dan Barker   + | location = Berkeley   + | publisher = Ulysses Press   + | isbn = 978-1569756775   + | lccn = 2008904135   + | page = 90   + | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=fAjPWYgIfCoC&pg=PA90   + | passage = '''Atheism''' is the lack of theism, the lack of ''belief'' in god(s). I am an atheist because there is no reason to believe. }} }} # {{rfv-sense}} {{context|possibly|_|nonstandard|or|dated}} The absence of a particular religious belief (or belief in a particular deity). {{qualifier|Atheism in this broad sense does not exclude religious, even theistic, belief; in the Roman Empire, for example, Christians were accused of "atheism" because they refused to believe in the gods of Rome, although they did believe in [[Yahweh|a single god]].}} # {{rfv-sense}} {{context|possibly|_|nonstandard|or|dated}} The absence of a particular religious belief (or belief in a particular deity). {{qualifier|Atheism in this broad sense does not exclude religious, even theistic, belief; in the Roman Empire, for example, Christians were accused of "atheism" because they refused to believe in the gods of Rome, although they did believe in [[Yahweh|a single god]].}}

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