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atheism

noun
/ˈeɪ.θi.ɪ.zəm/

Etymology

16th century Middle French athéisme, from athée (“atheist”), a loan from Ancient Greek ἄθεος (átheos, “godless”, from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + θεός (theós, “deity, god”)). First English attestation dates to 1587 (OED).

  1. derived from ἄθεος
  2. derived from athéisme

Definitions

  1. A non-belief in deities.

    • Near-synonyms: antireligiousness, irreligion, irreligiousness
    • For atheism to be rationally justified it is only necessary that it be more probable than not or at least more probable than theism. Certainty is no more required in the case of atheism than it is in the case of scientific theories.

  2. Absence of belief in a particular deity, pantheon, or religious doctrine (notwithstanding…

    Absence of belief in a particular deity, pantheon, or religious doctrine (notwithstanding belief in other deities).

    • Sacrificial religion becomes redundant – which is why Christianity did indeed have a reputation in the ancient world for atheism: it rejected the key duty humans are thought to owe to the gods, namely sacrifice.

  3. A rejection of all religions, even non-theistic ones.

    • Some worldviews are based in a belief in God; others are not. Buddhism, Taoism, atheism, Marxism, and existentialism are examples of worldviews that are nontheistic.
    • Buddhism and atheism do agree on the view that there is no God. But Buddhism and atheist materialism totally disagree on the points such as “What is life?”, “Is there any Super natural?” etc.
    • Another reason why the transition between Buddhism and atheism seemed so easy, was my personal discomfort with the theory of reincarnation.

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Derived

antiatheism, Atheism Plus, faitheism, hard atheism, metatheism, neoatheism, new atheism, nonatheism, panatheism, pseudoatheism, pseudo-atheism, soft atheism, state atheism

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for atheism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA