📖 Biblical Definition
Scripture does not argue for God's existence — it declares it. "The fool has said in his heart, 'There is no God'" (Psalm 14:1). The biblical diagnosis of atheism is not intellectual but moral — it is the suppression of knowledge that God has already revealed. "For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse" (Romans 1:20). Atheism is not the absence of evidence for God but the active rejection of evidence that is everywhere present.
📜 Webster 1828 Definition
The disbelief of the existence of a God, or Supreme intelligent Being.
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A'THEISM, n. The disbelief of the existence of a God, or Supreme intelligent Being. Atheism is a ferocious system, that leaves nothing above us to excite awe, nor around us to awaken tenderness. Note: Webster did not treat atheism as a respectable intellectual position but as a "ferocious system" — a worldview that strips away both reverence and compassion.
📖 Key Scripture
• Psalm 14:1 — "The fool says in His heart, 'There is no God.'"
• Romans 1:18-20 — "For what can be known about God is plain to them... So they are without excuse."
• Psalm 19:1 — "The heavens declare the glory of God."
• Ephesians 2:12 — "Having no hope and without God in the world."
⚠️ Modern Corruption
Atheism is presented as the default rational position and theism as an irrational holdover from a primitive era.
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The "New Atheism" of the early twenty-first century positioned the rejection of God as the pinnacle of intellectual achievement and religious belief as a form of mental illness. But this bravado masks the catastrophic consequences of atheism when consistently applied. Without God, there is no objective morality, no intrinsic human dignity, no ultimate meaning, and no hope beyond the grave. Every atheistic regime in history — from the French Revolution to the Soviet Union to Maoist China — has produced unprecedented bloodshed because when God is removed, man becomes his own god, and power becomes the only law. Atheism is not a neutral absence of belief; it is a theological claim with devastating civilizational consequences.
Usage
• "Scripture does not treat atheism as an intellectual position to be debated — it calls it foolishness, the moral suppression of what God has made plain."
• "Atheism borrows moral categories from the Christian worldview — justice, compassion, human dignity — while denying the God who grounds them."