ATHEISM

general name for disbelief in God. Chief ancient Atheists were Diagoras, Bion, and Lucian chief modern, La Mettrie, Von Holbach, Feuerbach, Flourens, etc. There are three forms of it— Dogmatic, which a erts that there is no God sceptical, which a erts that the finite mind of man; cannot ascertain whether or not there is any God and critical, which a erts that no sufficient evidence; has yet been produced to prove the existence of a God.