Noun

(-)

The view that absolute truth or ultimate certainty is unattainable, especially regarding knowledge not based on experience or perceivable phenomena.

The view that the existence of God or of all deities is unknown, unknowable, unproven, or unprovable.

Doubt, uncertainty, or scepticism regarding the existence of a god or gods.

* 1956, January 31^st: ; quoted in:

* 1988 : James B. Simpson, Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations , ? 4,393] ([[w:Houghton Mifflin, Houghton Mifflin], ISBN 0395430852)

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism , disbelief?—?call it what you will?—?than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

(label) Doubt, uncertainty, or scepticism regarding any subject of dispute.

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Noun

(en noun)

One who believes in the existence of a god or gods.

* 1999 , Jeaneane D. Fowler, Humanism: Beliefs & Practices, page 66

The term stands in contradistinction to theism which, in its widest sense, means belief in a personal god, goddess, gods and /or goddesses.

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, year = 1764 , author = Voltaire , title = Philosophical Dictionary , url = http://www.online-literature.com/voltaire/philosophical-dictionary/91/ , passage = The theist is a man firmly persuaded of the existence of a Supreme Being as good as He is powerful, who has formed all beings with extension, vegetating, sentient and reflecting; who perpetuates their species, who punishes crimes without cruelty, and rewards virtuous actions with kindness. }}

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, year = 1854 , title = Speculative Atheism , first = Theodore , last = Parker , editors = Linton, W. J. , magazine = The English Republic , volume = 3 , page = 205 , passage = and I call him a theist who believes in any God. }}

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, year = 1870 , title = An Essay in aid of a Grammar of Assent , first = John Henry , last = Newman , page = 119 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=YEkXAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA119 , passage = No one is to be called a Theist , who does not believe in a Personal God, whatever difficulty there may be in defining the word "Personal." }}