Re: A bunch of oxymorons?
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 19, 2001, 1:53 |
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:36:12 -0400, Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
wrote:
>Are people using "atheist" for "non-religious"? I've always been told that
>being an atheist means that you believe there's no God or gods, nothing more
>and nothing less.
>
>BTW, I scored a 100% for "Mainstream to Liberal Protestan", quite expectedly
>for a member of the Swedish Covenant Church I guess.
_Some_ atheists believe that no gods exist, but not all. It makes a
difference where you put the negative. Gjarrda has two different words for
these different flavors of what we call "atheism" in English.
zigzavam: not convinced that any number of gods exist.
zigzanakh: convinced that the number of gods that exist is precisely zero.
As for myself, the only thing I'm reasonably sure of is that the number of
gods that exist is a non-negative integer.
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