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Definition of Atheists
1. atheist [n] - See also: atheist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Atheists
Literary usage of Atheists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"What ill judges the vulgar have been of Theists and atheists ; as also that
learned men have commonly supposed fewer atheists than indeed there were. ..."
2. A sketch of the denominations of the Christian world by John Evans (1811)
"But before we delineate the tenets of the several parties, the atheists and Deists
... atheists. THE Atheist does not believe in the existence of a God. ..."
3. Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 by Robert Flint (1894)
"It has been argued that religion, so far from being a universal, is not even a
general characteristic of man; that so far from there being no atheists in ..."
4. The Theory of Toleration Under the Later Stuarts by Alexander Adam Seaton (1911)
"And therefore if atheists are with to be reasoned with at all they are to be reasoned
... He proceeded to divide atheists into two kinds, those who doubt, ..."
5. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"But instead of the world's eternity, these two sorts of atheists introduced another
... And it is prophesied in Scripture, that such atheists as these, ..."
6. A Body of Divinity: Wherein the Doctrines of the Christian Religion are by Thomas Ridgley (1814)
"But it is objected to this, that there have been some speculative atheists in
the world. History gives us an account of this ..."
7. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"And first, the atheists would persuade, that it is the " interest of ... Wherefore,
that conceit of the atheists, that an incorporeal Deity could not ..."
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