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Baggini On Atheism And The Existence Of Religion

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4. a) Baggini argues that an etymological analysis of the word a-theism that suggests that its presence is reliant on the existence of religion is logically false because the etymology of a word does not give out its complete meaning. He says that "the mere fact that the word 'atheist' is constructed as a negation of theism is not enough to show that it is essentially negative"1. Moreover, if the belief in God ended all of a sudden in the whole world, atheism will still exists, because atheism was there even before theism. Theism started as saying that there is a higher presence existing, atheists were exactly the same even before the theists. Its only when Theism became the standard, that it became popular in every corner of the world,
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