<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">"Atheism can mean a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods"</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">No, it cannot, and is not listed as that from any creditable source, because it would render the word "atheist" meaningless. Theists and agnostics can also lack belief in the <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-0><SPAN>existence</SPAN></SPAN> of a God or Gods. So, if they all do, none have any meaning of <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-1><SPAN>separation</SPAN></SPAN> with that definition. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Atheist literally means "without God" from its Greek <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-2><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-0><SPAN>origin</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>. " A" means without, and "<SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-3><SPAN>theist</SPAN></SPAN>", means God or divine entity.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">If you believe that there is the <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-4><SPAN>possibility</SPAN></SPAN> of a God, then<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR> you do not lack <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-5><SPAN>belief</SPAN></SPAN> that there is a God. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-6><SPAN>Atheism</SPAN></SPAN> is the <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-7><SPAN>belief</SPAN></SPAN> there is no God. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Donovan J. Arnold</SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Chasuk <chasuk@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com>; Vision2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, June 7, 2012 10:55 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Vision2020] Atheism to Defeat Religion By 2038?<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>Atheism can mean a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods,<BR>with no redefining necessary. That's what it means in my case. As<BR>someone who lacks belief in the existence of God or
gods, it is<BR>possible to acknowledge that he/she/it/they might exist, without<BR>logical contradiction.<BR><BR>I also lack belief in the existence of a mauve <SPAN id=misspell-2 class=mark>hippogriff</SPAN> orbiting<BR>Betelgeuse, while acknowledging the possible existence of said<BR><SPAN id=misspell-3 class=mark>hippogriff</SPAN>.<BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>