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Latin Translation for "I think therefore God does not exist."

I'm playing around with a few ideas here. I wish I'd taken Latin instead of the four years of Spanish my family convinced me to take. I digress. I want to know how to translate the following ideas into Latin in the pithiest ways possible so as to echo the famous "Cogito ergo sum." I realize it won't sound exactly the same, but I'd like to at least know what I'm looking at. Any further suggestions are more than welcome. Thanks!

I think therefore god does not exist.
I reason therefore god does not exist.

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Permalink Reply by ɟǝןıx dǝʇɹɐɹ on January 28, 2010 at 2:10pm

Cogito, ergo Deus non est.

I think this is closer to what you have in mind.

Je pense, donc dieu n'existe pas.

Permalink Reply by Michael B. Paulk on January 28, 2010 at 2:15pm

Just for more fun:

Je pense, donc il n'y a pas de dieu (French).

Ich denke, deshalb gibt es keinen Gott (German). [The capitalization is not in respect for the diety; all nouns are capitalized in German.]

Anybody out there able to speak Esperanto? :)

Permalink Reply by Ian Andreas Miller on February 8, 2010 at 2:15am

"Cogito, ergo Deus non est."

Best translation.

"EGO reputo proinde deus does nusquam esse."

Online translations and such are very bad. "Does" is not Latin!

Permalink Reply by ɟǝןıx dǝʇɹɐɹ on February 8, 2010 at 2:19am

do you know that "-puto" is the part in "com-puter" ? :)

Permalink Reply by Stephen Moore on February 8, 2010 at 6:19am

Computer, derived from compute, from Latin, computare:
com; with, together, in association
putare; to think

Permalink Reply by Ian Andreas Miller on March 31, 2010 at 9:12pm

The Neo-Latin word for "computer" is "computatrum."

Permalink Reply by Ian Andreas Miller on March 31, 2010 at 9:11pm

Of course!

Permalink Reply by Klaus Motan on March 12, 2010 at 11:26am

...ther´s a little problem with theses sentences, as the implication "I think" doesn´t state any evidence of the non-existence of a god; you might think, but you don´t automatically have to think correct, so the state of being a thinking being doesn´t implement the non-existence of anything else...
You only can state, that the results of your thinking are, that you can´t prove the existence of a god, but there´s no logical evidence of a nonexistence of anything else in yourself being a thinking being !
which would be in German : Als Ergebnis meines Denkens bin ich zu dem Schluß gekommen, daß die Existenz eines Gottes nicht beweisbar ist !

Permalink Reply by Timo Ostrander on March 20, 2010 at 1:05am