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adjective

Atheistical, Atheistic adj.

Pertaining to, implying, or containing, atheism; applied to things; as, atheistic doctrines, opinions, or books. "Atheistical explications of natural effects."

Disbelieving the existence of a God; impious; godless; applied to persons; as, an atheistic writer.

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Etymology of 'Atheistic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Atheistic" Quotes from Famous Books

... Church was as usual in accord with the sword; theoretically all peace, practically all bloodshed and rapine and aggression: and anything that was not his own opinion envisaged itself always to the Dean's crystallised mind as revolutionary and atheistic. ...

— The British Barbarians • Grant Allen

... pietists by Providence. They are not allowed to question that whatever has recently happened was all for the best. Now Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle. If there be no purpose, or if the purpose permits of human free will, then in either case it is almost insanely unlikely that there should be in history a period ...

— What I Saw in America • G. K. Chesterton

... illustrate some important principles, and to help on the general cause of truth, I must say that he strikes me as a very unreasonable man in much of his behavior. Our puritan fathers did not come to this wilderness with French, atheistic, idolatrous love for a goddess of liberty. They came here, it is true, for liberty of conscience and freedom to worship God. With a great sum they purchased this freedom. But infidels could as well claim ...

— Bertha and Her Baptism • Nehemiah Adams

... nothingness. It takes matter from [Page 182] the hand of the unseen power behind, and merely notes the progress of its development. It finds the clay in the hands of an intelligent potter, and sees it whirl in the process of formation into a vessel. It is not in any sense necessarily atheistic, any more than it is to affirm that a tree grows by vital processes in the sun and dew, instead of being arbitrarily and instantly created. The conclusion reached depends on the spirit of the observer. Newton could say, "This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only ...

— Recreations in Astronomy - With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work • Henry Warren

... showed hardly any inclination for aesthetics, of which he had not even heard much. We may be sure that to Chopin to whom discussions of any kind were distasteful, those of a circle in which, as in that of George Sand, democratic and socialistic, theistic and atheistic views prevailed, were particularly so. For, notwithstanding his bourgeois birth, his sympathies were with the aristocracy; and notwithstanding his neglect of ritual observances, his attachment to the Church of Rome remained unbroken. Chopin does not seem to ...

— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks

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