atheist

A person who does not believe in deities or gods.

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."

A person who does not believe in deities or gods.

Ageine, the Atheistes, which say in their hartes there is no God; […]

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.

A person who does not believe in deities or gods.

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.

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.’

A person who does not believe in deities or gods.

All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God. Are they then criminal on account of their ignorance?

A person who does not believe in a particular deity (but may believe in another deity).

Malice and prejudice concurred in representing the Christians 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.

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.

Of or relating to atheists or atheism; atheistic.

He would have been seven times more Epicure and atheist than he was.

God! That majestic name is in the pledge. In doing this the government has already made clear that our country believes in God! We are the majority! Our nation is not Buddhist, not Hinduist, not Atheist, and the list goes on!

To make someone an atheist.

The multitude of opinions doth draw him away, or else Atheist him, that he will be nothing. […] The multitude of opinions […] doth un-atheist him, put him upon the search and examination what is the truth of God.