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Tony Pasquarello's "Atheism and Natheism part II": a response from George Ricker.

Publication: American Atheist Magazine
Publication Date: 22-MAR-04 		Format: Online - approximately 1102 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Since I joined this discussion with Tony Pasquarello, I feel some obligation to respond to his last offering. I'll be brief.

The real dispute seems to be between those who view Atheism as an "ism," i.e. a doctrine or theory, and those who maintain, as I do, that the "ism" in Atheism really belongs to "theism" and Atheism is the condition of being without that "ism." Put more succinctly, theism is god-belief, and Atheism is its absence.

Far from being "politically correct" or "circuitous," I think the description of Atheism as "the absence of god-belief" is the most accurate definition of the word in question and avoids any confusion about its real nature. As I mentioned in my last offering, I do not view agnosticism as a halfway house between Atheism and theism. In my view, anyone who is not a theist is an Atheist, regardless of how they choose to label themselves. It's really that simple. One either believes that one or more...

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