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- noun Plural form of
atheism .
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Examples
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If the diversity of 'atheisms' and of 'theisms' wasn't enough!
What is an Atheist? James F. McGrath 2008
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Indeed, there's a great moment in the novel Children of God by Mary Doria Russell in which characters mention how atheisms differ depending on the view of God and the religious tradition that has been rejected.
Why Liberal Christianity Isn't Bankrupt James F. McGrath 2009
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Just as there are different religions, there are different atheisms.
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Just as in the case of atheism generally we learn what we are and are not really committed to, so in dialogue or trialogue or whatever between faiths, we might be able to learn from each other's disbeliefs, to be 'purified' by encountering and examining the protests and denials, the 'atheisms', of each other's views.
'Analysing Atheism; Unbelief and the world of Faiths' Georgetown University, Washington DC 2004
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Immanuel Kant did face it, and his object was to provide against the recurrence of atheisms and anarchies, to make godlessness and revolutions impossible, to ensure religion's being a help instead of a gross and deplorable hindrance to progress, and to provide man with an idealism and an enthusiasm which would satisfy his utmost desire for knowledge, and yet stir the pulses of his moral being by the suggestion of an irresistible emotion.
Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles W. R. Washington Sullivan
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William James, 'It _feels_ like a real fight -- as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem; and first of all to redeem our own hearts from atheisms and fears.'
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It frowned upon these and upon agnosticisms, atheisms, pantheisms, religious doubts, and alterations in judgment -- upon anything, in short, that seemed to push a finger against Church and Kingdom.
Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings Mary Johnston 1903
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a "catalogue" prepared by the King of the blasphemies, heresies, and atheisms of the Professor.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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a "catalogue" prepared by the King of the blasphemies, heresies, and atheisms of the Professor.
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1610c-12 John Lothrop Motley 1845
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a "catalogue" prepared by the King of the blasphemies, heresies, and atheisms of the Professor.
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1609-15) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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