2007-08-30 03:30:49 · 29 answers · asked by Tyler L 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No... I know what I'm typing when I say I'm an ATHEIST.
2007-08-30 03:35:02 · answer #1 · answered by §αғịỳỳẩ² Ẫ†нэậ†ị 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
atheism is from ancient Greek, meaning unbelieving in the divinity of the state. This is from a time when not believing in the Gods that the government did was a punishable offence.
A "theist" is someone who supports the divinity of the state, and believes in the Gods that the government supports.
Perhaps this will explain why an atheist is certainly different than a theist. See, there's different letters and everything. Right now, by the originating standards, since it is against our constitution to have a state supported religion, everyone in the United States of America is an atheist...no matter who you are, you don't believe in the Gods that the government does...because the Government doesn't have a God list for us to check.
2007-08-30 10:49:56 · answer #2 · answered by Night Owl 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do Christians really mean to say: we want to be atheists really but we cover ourselves and believe through fear in case there is a God. We would rather be happy and live without fear knowing the truth than walking around with this terrible misery that comes as a result of, if we are wrong and we did not believe we will go to Hell thinking that we have, so we live hell on Earth in case?
2007-08-30 10:41:46 · answer #3 · answered by Eye see! 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
do theists really mean to say they are an atheist and just spell it wrong?
see how this works?
2007-08-30 10:37:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
no they do not. A changes the direct meaning of the word it is infromt of. to insert the A infront of a word mean "having no" or "lacking"
theist means having a belief in a God or system of gods. inserting and a infront changes it to having no belief in a God or system of gods.
I hate to use this example but like the difference between sexual and asexual.
Even thugh I know you weren;t being serious. . .
2007-08-30 10:41:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Atheists are over-represented (relative to Theists) in science and higher education. If anyone is misspelling something, it most likely is Theists.
2007-08-30 10:37:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
The 'a' is a prefix meaning "not" theist. It is totally intentional English.
2007-08-30 10:42:18 · answer #7 · answered by ideogenetic 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
only theists spell atheist wrong
2007-08-30 10:35:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
lol i dont think so, if a theist wrote atheist and re-read the answer they gave Im sure they would correct it.
2007-08-30 10:37:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not a chance. Study a little orthography, and learn that "A-theism" means "Without theism", or "without belief in a supernatural god".
And stop trolling.
2007-08-30 10:48:22 · answer #10 · answered by Ralfcoder 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yesterday in an answer I saw it spelled "athiust." A new version every day!
2007-08-30 10:35:46 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋