Quotes by Valerii A. Kuvakin

Atheism ... goes back to the Ancient Greek (a — a negative prefix, theos — god), evidencing the antiquity of the outlook of those who saw no presence of God (or gods) in their everyday lives, or who even denied the very existence of God (or gods). There are different types of atheism, but atheism in one form or another has existed in every civilization.[T]he concept atheist partially coincides with such notions as skeptic, agnostic, and rationalist and it borders with such notions as anticlerical, God fighter (theomachist), and God abuser (blasphemer).It is wrong to identify an atheist as one who denies God, though this is what opponents of atheism usually claim. If such people exist, it would probably be more correct to call them the verbal murderers of God, for the prefix a- means denying as elimination. ... I would like to stress that the prefix a- does not necessarily mean rejection. It can mean absence of. For example, apathy means absence of passion. Thus, the concept atheist does not necessarily mean nihilism.