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atheist | disciple |

As nouns the difference between atheist and disciple

is that atheist is atheist while disciple is any of the followers of jesus christ.

atheist

Noun

(en noun)
  • (narrowly) A person who believes that no deities exist (qualifier).
  • * {{quote-book, date = 1571-10-20
  • , first = Arthur , last = Golding , chapter = The Epistle Dedicatory , title = Psalmes of Dauid and others, with M. 's Commentaries , url = http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/calvin/cc08/cc08004.htm , passage = Ageine, the Atheistes , which say in their hartes there is no God; }}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date = 1953-11-03
  • , first = Bertrand , last = Russell , authorlink = Bertrand Russell , title = What is an Agnostic? , magazine = Look , url = http://scepsis.ru/eng/articles/id_5.php , passage = An atheist', like a Christian, holds that we ''can'' know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the ' atheist , that we can know there is not. }}
  • (broadly) A person who rejects belief that any deities exist (whether or not that person believes that deities do not exist).
  • * {{quote-magazine, year = 1843
  • , title = A Reciprocal Dialogue , first = G. J. , last = Holyoake , authorlink = George Holyoake , editors = Paterson, Thomas , magazine = , volume = 2 , issue = 64 , page = 89 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=1apbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA89&dq=atheism , passage = Minister—Are you really an Atheist ?
    Atheist—Yes.
    M.—Do you deny that there is a god?
    A.—No. I deny that there is sufficient reason to believe there is one. There may be a god, but I think it rather unlikely. }}
  • * {{quote-book, date = 2006-09-18
  • , first = Richard , last = Dawkins , title = The God Delusion , publisher = Houghton Mifflin , location = Boston , chapter = The God Hypothesis , page = 51 , edition = 1st Am. , isbn = 978-0618680009 , lccn = 2006015506 , id = , ol = 7606171M , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=yq1xDpicghkC&pg=PA73 , passage = Very low probability, but short of zero. De facto atheist . ‘I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.’ }}
  • (loosely) A person who has no belief in any deities, such as a person who has no concept of deities.
  • * {{quote-book, year = 1772
  • , original = Le Bon-Sens, ou, Idées Naturelles opposées aux Idées Surnaturelles , by = , year_published = 2004 , title = Good Sense without God: Or Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas , location = London , publisher = W. Stewart , section = §30 , page = 21 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=vTqR5r1_DqYC&pg=PA21 , passage = All children are born Atheists ; they have no idea of God. Are they then criminal on account of their ignorance? }}
  • * {{quote-book, year = 1910
  • , title = The Vermont Digest 1789-1905 , publisher = Free Press Printing Co , location = Burlington , volume = 2 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=HlgWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR137 , passage = Atheists. One who does not believe in the existence of a Supreme Being, an atheist , is incompetent as a witness, being incapable of being sworn. [...] Changed by Acts of 1851, No. 12 (P. S. 1593), under which, no question can be raised as to a witness's "opinions on matters of religious belief." }}
  • (loosely, uncommon) A person who does not believe in a particular deity (or any deity in a particular pantheon), notwithstanding that they may believe in another deity.
  • * {{quote-book, year = 1840
  • , first = Edward , last = Gibbon , authorlink = Edward Gibbon , title = The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , edition = new , volume = 1 , chapter = 16 , page = 183 , passage = Malice and pejudice concurred in representing the christians(SIC) as a society of atheists , who, by the most daring attack on the religious constitution of the empire, had merited the severest animadversion of the civil magistrate. }}
  • * {{quote-video, year = 2002
  • , month = February , first = Richard , last = Dawkins , title = Richard Dawkins on militant atheism , work = TED , url = http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/richard_dawkins_on_militant_atheism.html , passage = An atheist' is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. As has been said before, we are all ' atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. }}

    Synonyms

    * nontheist

    Antonyms

    * theist

    Hypernyms

    * (neologism)

    Quotations

    See also

    * agnostic * deist * pandeist * ignostic * apatheist

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to atheists or atheism; atheistic.
  • * ,
  • He would have been seven times more Epicure and atheist than he was.

    Anagrams

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    disciple

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.
  • An active follower or adherent of someone, or some philosophy etc.
  • * Holy Bible, Matthew 9:10 (King James Version)
  • And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
  • , chapter=4, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.}}
  • (Ireland) Miserable-looking creature of a man.
  • Synonyms

    * student

    See also

    * apostle

    Verb

    (discipl)
  • (obsolete) To train, educate, teach.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i:
  • fraile youth is oft to follie led, / Through false allurement of that pleasing baite, / That better were in vertues discipled [...].