atheist

[Scot LaFaive]

Not sure; I moved on to the more definitive stance of non-belief some time
ago. But as a previous agnostic, I really enjoy the definition of
agnosticism as the lazy man's atheism.

Scot

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Jesus Christ, are there no agnostics any more?
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> JL
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com>
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> > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 09:08:32PM -0500, Herb Stahlke wrote:
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> > > Has the entry for "atheist" been revised to note such a more
> > > specialized usage?  I've gone through the revisions I could find on
> > > the OED Online site and could find no reference to "atheist."
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> > The OED entry has not been revised yet. It is a difficult
> > concept, of course, and probably not one that can be settled
> > by recourse to a dictionary definition--there have been enough
> > interpretations of the term over the years that one can't just
> > say that one of them is the "right" one.
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> > Jesse Sheidlower
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