More A-Theists Than We Realize


	More A-Theists Than We Realize

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d11a5746-a68e-4747-8c78-ed5c0dab7e2c/8A97DC94-E954-4094-8260-061ABCF4497B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/john_shelby_spong/2008/06/more_atheists_than_we_realize.html" href="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/john_shelby_spong/2008/06/more_atheists_than_we_realize.html" style="font-size: 11px;">newsweek.washingtonpost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/john_shelby_spong/2008/06/more_atheists_than_we_realize.html"><P>The problem with this question is in the definition of an atheist.  Literally, that word means “not to believe in a theistic deity.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/john_shelby_spong/2008/06/more_atheists_than_we_realize.html"><P>Theism is attached to the concept of an external, supernatural deity, who intervenes in human history to accomplish some divine purpose or to answer prayers.  In the light of the work of Galileo, who made the theistic God above the sky homeless, and Isaac Newton, who rendered the theistic God to be unemployed, theism has come on bad days.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/john_shelby_spong/2008/06/more_atheists_than_we_realize.html"><P>Theism, however, is not God; it is a human definition of God that is dated and inadequate.  Professional theologians hardly ever talk about a theistic God, yet none of them are atheists in the sense of asserting that there is no God.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/john_shelby_spong/2008/06/more_atheists_than_we_realize.html"><P>It is a pity that theological knowledge so seldom makes it down to the people in the pews.  It seems from this Pew Survey, however, that it might be making it in the ranks of the atheists.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/john_shelby_spong/2008/06/more_atheists_than_we_realize.html">Former Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Newark
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