Nonsense. Even the site I linked to uses the word "atheist" as an example of a word beginning with the prefix a-. Anti- is not a word. It's a prefix. That is why it is listed in a list of prefixes.
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"Humans are born as atheists"
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I sure do. Anti-theism is active opposition to theism. Atheism is not being theist.
Firedragon, go back and read through the posts. This whole thread is about definitions; about religious people -- or just people unfamiliar with the issue -- trying to impose an archaic definition of atheism on a group using the term only to denote a lack of belief.
The title of this thread is: "humans are born atheists." The OP means born without belief, not born rejecting a belief they don't yet have. The working definition here is "lack of belief" not rejection of or anti belief.
There are several definitions of atheism and several types of atheists. The one most atheists subscribe to, and the one being used in the OP, is simple absence of belief, not a rejection of belief; not anti-belief. Atheism is not anti anything, If someone, or some thing, lacks a belief in God, it is a-theist,
If you want to define atheist as anti-theist that's fine, but it's not the definition used by actual atheists, or in this thread.
firedragon
Veteran Member
Okay. I understand and agree.
firedragon
Veteran Member
If you say Anti means the absense of something, its wrong. But okay. Thats your wish.
Never said anti- means the absence of something. It means "opposing, against, the opposite". https://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/prefixes.htm
a- means the absence of something, like the absence of theism, being without theism. Like in atheism.
"Non-theist" is a euphemism for "atheist" used by people who want to avoid the negative baggage that's often associated with atheism.
firedragon
Veteran Member
Anyway, above someone told me that the thread is about having no God in your idea when you are born (If I got it right). So, though I think its a very shallow idea, I concede that OP defines this thread, not the literal meaning of a word, and I respectfully refrain from further argument on the word.
Peace.
The etymology of "atheist" has nothing to do with the "anti-" prefix.
firedragon
Veteran Member
I know that brother.
In Greek the prefix a does not mean 'not'. Its makes it a neuter. The atheoi in the bible means Godless. I think, thats what the OP explains as said by Valjien.
To some of us, it's not archaic, though. It's very much alive and well.
El Conquistador
Ruler of Zamunda
Oh, for crying out loud. Humans are pretty much "a" everything when they're born. When I was born, I was a-poopinginatoilet.
Yes, that's the absurdity of this illogic.
Such as it is.
firedragon
Veteran Member
Yes. I was apparently athinning.
McBell
Unbound
As a matter a fact I do.
Why?
Because i understand that there is more than one definition for the word atheist.
McBell
Unbound
Who said that?
Hells bells, who even implied that?
I mean other than yourself when you made the false claim that the "a" in atheism means "anti"...
firedragon
Veteran Member
Was that to you brother? No. Thus, why not keep your elastic clothing untwisted.
Cheers.
ImmortalFlame
Woke gremlin
You do realize how forums work, right? It's not a private conversation.