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• n  one who believes in the existence of a god or gods
• a  of or relating to theism

• I only prefer "non-theist" because I do not consider myself to be "unsophisticated", "uncultured", and "uncivilized" (while a "heathen" is).
• And for the record, the only non-theist in either house ever is Pete Stark from California.
• Non-theist, atheist, heathen, whatever! The Muslims were offended by cartoons! The Catholics were offended by "The Life of Brian"!! .

• theistical
• theistic

News & Articles

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• Some nonbelievers still find solace in prayer
  Some atheists embrace the practices of their theist counterparts, despite their lack of belief in a greater power.
  June 24, 2013 - Washington Post
• U.S.'s first atheist monument on public land
  American Atheists will unveil their monument to unbelief on Saturday on government land in front of Bradford County Courthouse in Florida and won the right for its installation in a deal over an existing monument featuring the Ten Commandments on the same property adjacent to it.
  June 23, 2013 - Fernley Leader

Quotes

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• Martin Gardner in History News Network
  I would wonder why he does not walk out of the church and declare himself a liberal Protestant or a philosophical theist,Gardner wrote, himself a member of the latter group. "This is the mystery and strangeness that hovers like a gray fog...
• Alvin Plantinga in Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Towers Online
  The traditional theist, on the other hand, has no corresponding reason for doubting that it is a purpose of our cognitive systems to produce true beliefs,Plantinga said.
• George Hickes in The Australian
  George Hickes, in his Two Treatises on the Christian Priesthood (1707), wrote scathingly about the heretic who regales "his atheist-ridden, or theist-ridden, or sceptic-ridden . . . or devil-ridden mind".