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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:32 am
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:47 am
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:05 pm
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 5:05 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:25 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 2:47 pm
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Based on its position in the sentence, it could be a present participle, but present participles in English have -ing at the end, so it would be, "She's atheisting."
It could also be an adjective, a predicate adjective, but -ist isn't an ending for adjectives in English, so to be an adjective, it would have to be "atheistic", as in, "She's atheistic."
Since 'to atheist' is indeed not a verb, only the second would make sense.
However, if you look to other languages, such as French, German, and Spanish, you'll see that, with nouns of religion, profession, and national origin (and perhaps others), the article a/an/one is omitted, and the noun is treated as an adjective for declension purposes. In Romaninan, "Este ziarista" means "he is a journalist", I think. Both the subject pronoun and the indefinite article are omitted, though I think the former is an optional omission, whereas the latter is required.
So, while it is understandable, by analogy to other languages, to omit the indefinite article, it is not correct in English. Thus the correct wording would be either, "She's atheistic," or, "She's an atheist."
And the word atheistic might include people who are just non-religious, but not self-labeled as atheists, so, really, the only correct wording is, "She's an atheist."
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Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 5:57 pm
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Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:59 am
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