atheism definitions

This thread is for the exclusive purpose of debating the meaning of the word “atheist”. It isn’t for debating other words like “agnostic”. Please don’t derail this thread. Here’s my current definition of “atheist”. I’m happy to change it if anyone comes up with a better one. An atheist is a...

We have two distinct meanings of the word “atheist”. Historically, the word “atheist” referred to someone who believes there is no god. Again, historically, the word “agnostic” was used to denote someone who chooses not to take any position on the issue. The modern meaning of “atheist” (or at...

The statistics suggest that a lot more people say they are Christian than actually are Christian. I didn't have this material at hand when I started the thread about the usefulness of the terms theism and atheism. That thread is now useless. Perhaps this can be discussed here without falling...

So whenever I beat senseless facebookers who think "Athiests start wars, too you know", they always come up with Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Che I assume the answer is no, but is there any way these people started their conflicts due to athiesm? To me it seems like a massively stupid question...