It's easy: <br />A = "No" <br />Theos = "God" <br />Hence, atheos = "no God" <br />Ergo, atheism = "belief in no god." <br /> <br />Despite all of this, fake atheists have been redefining the term "atheism" to mean a lack of belief in God. <br /> <br />More on the real definition of atheism: <br /> <br />Charles Darwin to John Fordyce: "I have never been an Atheist in the sense of denying the existence of God." <br /> <br />Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language defines atheism as "the belief that there is no God, or denial that God or gods exist" (p. 87). <br /> <br />Collier's Encyclopedia: "Those who explicitly deny the existence of God, by virtue of some metaphysics whose key ideas positively excludes him" (Vol. I, P. 141). <br /> <br />Encyclopedia Britannica: "(1) as a denial that there is one supreme object of reverence; (2) as a denial that this object of reverence is also the all-inclusive reality; (3) as a denial that there is any one all-inclusive reality at all; (4) as a denial that the power which rules the world is worthy of our trust: (5) as a denial that this power is a Being with whom we may hold persnoal communion" (Vol. II p. 600). <br /> <br />Fun and Wagnall's New Encyclopedia: "atheism... denies the existence of deity" (Vol. I, p. 411). <br /> <br />Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Paul Edwards, ed.): "According to the most usual definition, an atheist is a person who maintains that there is no God, that is, that the sentence 'God exists' expresses a false proposition..." (Vol. I, p. 175).
