Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Opposition to theism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The doctrine of antitheists.
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- noun The categorical opposition to the belief in any and all
deities .
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Examples
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Now, if the word were "antitheism" (which there are antitheists), you'd have a point.
Web Advertising and Website Marketing - By Rob Scribner 2010
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With the New York Times Book Review and others calling the polemic "an all-out attack on all aspects of religion," one might assume Hitchens would've been similarly uncompromising about agnosticism as failing to reach his own level of certainty in "antitheism," his preferred self-description.
Christopher Lane: Two Ways Of Thinking About Agnosticism: Hitchens vs. Dawkins Christopher Lane 2012
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With the New York Times Book Review and others calling the polemic "an all-out attack on all aspects of religion," one might assume Hitchens would've been similarly uncompromising about agnosticism as failing to reach his own level of certainty in "antitheism," his preferred self-description.
Christopher Lane: Two Ways Of Thinking About Agnosticism: Hitchens vs. Dawkins Christopher Lane 2012
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With the New York Times Book Review and others calling the polemic "an all-out attack on all aspects of religion," one might assume Hitchens would've been similarly uncompromising about agnosticism as failing to reach his own level of certainty in "antitheism," his preferred self-description.
Christopher Lane: Two Ways Of Thinking About Agnosticism: Hitchens vs. Dawkins Christopher Lane 2012
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That is a pasive attribute and doesn`t imply antitheism or anything , an atheist may verywell not give a crap about religion , that`s all good , atheism has no agenda on it`s self .
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Atheism is a disbelief in the existence of deity; antitheism is active and direct opposition to theism.
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When social theorist Irving Kristol published a New York Times column in 1986 accusing Darwinists of manifesting a doctrinaire antitheism
A critique of Himmelfarb's scientific views - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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When social theorist Irving Kristol published a New York Times column in 1986 accusing Darwinists of manifesting a doctrinaire antitheism, for example, Stephen Jay Gould responded in Discover magazine with a masterpiece of misdirection.
A critique of Himmelfarb's scientific views - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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I tend to think of them more as “atheism” and “antitheism” rather than “weak” and “strong”
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The work is a history of antitheism from Kapila to Leconte de Lisle and, while the writer in a brief prefatory notice disavows all responsibility for the opinions of others, it can readily be felt that the book is a labour of love and that his sympathy lies with the iconoclasts through the centuries.
The Merry-Go-Round Carl Van Vechten 1922
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