Contemporary Examples <\/p>\n
Just as no unbeliever may be barred from federal service for his atheism, no true believer may be excluded for his abiding faith. <\/p>\n
She is not public about her atheism, just as many of us are not public about our faith. <\/p>\n
atheism is highest in Europe, where there are established churches involved in the political process. <\/p>\n
In 2009 he published a book defaming Hitchens and Richard Dawkins because he was irked by their bellicose brand of atheism. <\/p>\n
There is little evidence to support the notion that evolution is the result of an assumption of atheism. <\/p>\n
Historical Examples <\/p>\n
An attempt to exclude him on charges of atheism and blasphemy failed. <\/p>\n
For at bottom, atheism is either a fad or a trade or a fatuity. <\/p>\n
Mr. Saunders, so far as his atheism was concerned, was suggested by Professor Clifford. <\/p>\n
From the peddling-box, therefore, I turned even as I did from atheism. <\/p>\n
atheism and downright infidelity, as a general rule, are never very popular. <\/p>\n
British Dictionary definitions for atheism Expand <\/p>\n
rejection of belief in God or gods <\/p>\n
Word Origin <\/p>\n
C16: from French athisme, from Greek atheos godless, from a-1 + theos god <\/p>\n
Word Origin and History for atheism Expand <\/p>\n
1580s, from French athisme (16c.), from Greek atheos \"without god\" (see atheist). A slightly earlier form is represented by atheonism (1530s) which is perhaps from Italian atheo \"atheist.\" Ancient Greek atheotes meant \"ungodliness.\" <\/p>\n
atheism in Culture Expand <\/p>\n
Denial that there is a God. (Compare agnosticism.) <\/p>\n
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