What's the difference between atheist and pagan?

Atheist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who disbelieves or denies the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being.
  • (n.) A godless person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maryam Namazie, an Iranian-born campaigner against religious laws, had been invited to speak to the Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Society next month.
  • (2) The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life.
  • (3) My views almost six years ago would be considered by the Australian government as extreme and myself an Islamic extremist, although I was still an Atheist, a little confusing I know,” he wrote.
  • (4) Expressing the belief that it was important for Christians to engage in "a sincere and rigorous dialogue" with atheists, Francis recalled Scalfari had asked him whether God forgave those "who do not believe and do not seek to believe".
  • (5) Ultimately, it suggests the question: had he actually been Muslim, or instead been Hindu, Jewish or atheist, would he be any less American?
  • (6) Even Roberts couldn't dictate terms to the almighty, which may have been why he was an atheist.
  • (7) Eight members of the banned Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), including a senior cleric who is said to have founded the Islamist group, were convicted late last year for the murder of atheist blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider in February 2013.
  • (8) Now I’ve found some of my favourite comedy here: the anarchic young sketch groups, Stewart Lee’s Top Gear bit, James Acaster’s bit on apricots and Daniel Sloss’s unapologetically dark atheist stuff spring to mind.
  • (9) Atheist offenders will have their beliefs challenged too, by those who say Muslims are a persecuted minority who deserve protection from the dominant culture.
  • (10) No it's not, says atheist "pastor" Sanderson Jones .
  • (11) Rome: Open City stars Fabrizi as a priest, Don Pietro, who aids the Italian opposition and forms a close bond with an atheist, communist resistor.
  • (12) In Omaha, Nebraska, several atheist and humanist groups planned to visit the local Islamic Center on Saturday to express their support .
  • (13) Whatever delusion turns you on just don't expect me (an atheist) to go along with it.
  • (14) I think it's in Kansas, you'll have to fact check that, that they're not teaching evolution theory anymore, and apparently there was an online poll of English teachers, British teachers and it was something like 60% thought it should be taught alongside creationism, which for me is really shocking, but... Like I say, I don't think it is a film about atheism, but for me, as an atheist, to have a viable alternative is incredibly important.
  • (15) The figures neatly reverse the proportions among those who identify as religious, only 5% of whom are convinced atheists.
  • (16) A moral framework provided by religious belief is also likely to influence behaviour, with atheists more likely to keep the money than those who associate with a religion.
  • (17) More importantly still, this is only one view, and most atheistic outlooks contain no such consolations.
  • (18) With the use of computer graphics, the film portrays the sweep of Balkan history as a prolonged expropriation of inherently “Muslim lands”, first by “crusaders”, then atheistic communists, and finally nationalists.
  • (19) American sceptics, atheists, scientists and science educators are engaged in numerous battles.
  • (20) Speaking to Eugenio Scalfari, a co-founder of the Italian daily newspaper and an atheist, who exchanged letters with Francis over the summer, the Argentinian pope said he agreed it would be difficult to reform the Vatican .

Pagan


Definition:

  • (n.) One who worships false gods; an idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew.
  • (n.) Of or pertaining to pagans; relating to the worship or the worshipers of false goods; heathen; idolatrous, as, pagan tribes or superstitions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Professor Ronald Hutton , a leading expert on paganism based at Bristol University, said he believed there were at least 100,000 practising pagans in Britain.
  • (2) First, medicine was despised as a mechanical art or suspected of paganism because of its literary sources.
  • (3) Beltran moved to right field so that Pagan could play in center in New York to protect his knees.
  • (4) Pagan featured in one of the game's key plays, when a line drive hit the third base back and bounced away from Miguel Cabrera for a two-out double that eventually led to a three-run inning.
  • (5) The most famous image of suffering in the Renaissance was an ancient statue dug up in 1506 of the pagan priest Laocoön being strangled by snakes , his face a contorted image of pure suffering.
  • (6) This is a question which can be answered in entirely pagan ways, but there, too, you come up against something quite like the Christian problem of evil.
  • (7) 1.24am BST Cardinals 0 - Giants 0, Bottom 1st Angel Pagan, or Crazy Horse as he is sometimes known gets the crowd up by leading off the inning with a base hit to his old teammate, Carlos Beltran in right.
  • (8) The rookie shortstop boots it, bobbles it, picks it up and fires home and nails Angel Pagan who is trying to trot home!
  • (9) A recent proposal (Maggio, M. B., Pagan, J., Parsonage, D., Hatch, L., and Senior, A. E. (1987) J. Biol.
  • (10) 2.45am BST Giants 5 - Tigers 0, Bottom 4th Pagan grounds out to end the inning, but the Giants tack on another run at AT&T Park.
  • (11) Pagan can't check his swing on a slider out of the zone, 0-1.
  • (12) Boko Haram has repeatedly stated its opposition not only to western education - its name means western education is forbidden” in the Hausa language – but also to democracy and secular government, which it regards as a form of “paganism”, and its attacks could intensify to discourage voting.
  • (13) As a Christian, she is wrestling with the problem of other people's faiths, including paganism.
  • (14) Starting with standards arising from the relationship between medicine and art in classical antiquity, biblical tradition and teutonic-pagan antiquity, this article roams through german literature from the Middle Ages up to the 20th century, from Hildegard of Bingen to Gottfried Benn and Alfred Döblin, guided by the question, how strongly medical knowledge and medical practise are reflected in the poetry of writing physicians.
  • (15) Updated at 1.57am BST 1.51am BST Angel Pagan really is a Crazy Horse.
  • (16) In spite of the hookline ("Smother the fire … "), it retains a seasonally appropriate, huddled under pelts, Game Of Thrones vibe: slightly pagan, but definitely pleasantly warm.
  • (17) The Giants, who this week brutally lost their starting center fielder, Angel Pagan , for the season, to back surgery, have a mathematical chance at overtaking LA, but more likely will be fighting for home-field advantage in the NL wild-card game.
  • (18) 1.49am BST Giants 2 - Tigers 0, Top 2nd There are nervous cheers from the Detroit crowd after Pagan grounds out to Fielder at first to retire the side.
  • (19) One boy was told by his Isis commander: “Even if you see your father, if he is still Yazidi, you must kill him.” Isis has openly referred to the Yazidis as a “pagan minority [whose] existence … Muslims should question”, adding that “their women could be enslaved … as spoils of war”.
  • (20) On Tuesday, they accused liberal bishops of imposing a "neo-pagan worldview" by supporting gay marriage and claiming there should be "a recognition of God's grace at work in same-sex partnerships".