Citations:atheist

one who believes no gods exist

 * 2004, Armand M. Nicholi Jr., "Introduction: Definition and Significance of a Worldview", chapter 1 of Allan M. Josephson and John R. Peteet (editors), Handbook of Spirituality and Worldview in Clinical Practice, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., ISBN 978-1-58562-104-0, page 5:
 * Many have wondered why Freud called himself an atheist and not an agnostic. Because a negative is impossible to prove, the position of atheism, which holds that God does not exist, is untenable on strictly logical grounds.
 * 2006, John R. Mabry quoting "Pam" and "Leslie", in Faith Styles: Ways People Believe, Church Publishing, Inc., ISBN 9780819222220, page 117:
 * "But you've been thinking about it more, now? If you're not an atheist, what are you?"
 * "I'm an agnostic. That's like Atheism Lite, I think. I don't know if there is a god, but I don't know if there isn't a god, either. "
 * 2004, Armand M. Nicholi Jr., "Introduction: Definition and Significance of a Worldview", chapter 1 of Allan M. Josephson and John R. Peteet (editors), Handbook of Spirituality and Worldview in Clinical Practice, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., ISBN 978-1-58562-104-0, page 5:
 * Many have wondered why Freud called himself an atheist and not an agnostic. Because a negative is impossible to prove, the position of atheism, which holds that God does not exist, is untenable on strictly logical grounds.
 * 2006, John R. Mabry quoting "Pam" and "Leslie", in Faith Styles: Ways People Believe, Church Publishing, Inc., ISBN 9780819222220, page 117:
 * "But you've been thinking about it more, now? If you're not an atheist, what are you?"
 * "I'm an agnostic. That's like Atheism Lite, I think. I don't know if there is a god, but I don't know if there isn't a god, either. "
 * Many have wondered why Freud called himself an atheist and not an agnostic. Because a negative is impossible to prove, the position of atheism, which holds that God does not exist, is untenable on strictly logical grounds.
 * 2006, John R. Mabry quoting "Pam" and "Leslie", in Faith Styles: Ways People Believe, Church Publishing, Inc., ISBN 9780819222220, page 117:
 * "But you've been thinking about it more, now? If you're not an atheist, what are you?"
 * "I'm an agnostic. That's like Atheism Lite, I think. I don't know if there is a god, but I don't know if there isn't a god, either. "

...and no other religious beliefs

 * 1899 November 18, in The Outlook, volume 63, page 670:
 * He may be atheist, agnostic, Mohammedan, Buddhist, Parsee, Mormon — what he will : the State officially knows nothing of the difference.
 * 1907, My Double Life: Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt, page 367:
 * I moved towards the door, and a female reporter in a tailor-made skirt, with her hair cut short, asked me in a clear, sweet voice, "Are you a Jewess-Catholic-Protestant-Mohammedan-Buddhist-Atheist-Zoroaster-Theist-or-Deist?" I stood still, rotted to the spot in bewilderment. She had said all that in a breath, accenting the syllables haphazard, [...]
 * 2008, Lama Surya Das, Buddha Is as Buddha Does: The Ten Original Practices, page xvii:
 * It doesn't matter whether you now consider yourself a Buddhist, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Jain, pantheist, atheist, agnostic, or devotee of any other spirituality, religion, or philosophy. It doesn't matter if you're antireligious.

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 * 1930, Bhagat Singh, Why I am an atheist?,
 * That very day certain police officials began to persuade me to offer my prayers to God regularly both the times. Now I was an atheist. I wanted to settle for myself whether it was in the days of peace and enjoyment alone that I could boast of being an atheist or whether during such hard times as well I could stick to those principles of mine. After great consideration I decided that I could not lead myself to believe in and pray to God. No, I never did. That was the real test and I came, out successful.

mention, not use

 * 2009,, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 779:
 * At the time, doubt was generally given the blanket label atheism, just as a whole variety of sexual practices of which society pretended to disapprove were given the blanket label sodomy.