Atheism

has 17 synonyms ↓

• Aetheism
• Aetheists
• Astheism
• Astheist
• Atheism and behavior
• Atheism/DR
• Atheist
• atheists
• Athiesm
• Athiest
• Athiests
• defined more broadly as an absence of belief in deities
• Godlessness
• Ilhad
• Rejection of God
• The rationality of atheism
• TheRationalityOfAtheism
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1. It is also defined more broadly as an absence of belief in deities, becoming synonymous with any form of nontheism

   

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2. Many self-described atheists are skeptical of all supernatural beings and cite a lack of empirical evidence for the existence of deities

   

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4. Although many self-described atheists tend toward secular philosophies such as humanism and naturalism, there is no one ideology or set of behaviors to which all atheists adhere; and some religions, such as Jainism and Buddhism, do not require belief

   

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5. as an explicit position, can be either the affirmation of the nonexistence of gods, or the rejection of belief in deities

   

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6. Freedom From Religion Foundation

   

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7. AtheistWiki

   

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8. The Necessity of Atheism

   

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9. Atheist Nation

   

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10. 

    Because of its absence of a creator god, Buddhism is commonly described as nontheistic

    

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11. Religion & Ethics—Atheism

    

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12. Positive atheism: Great Historical Writings

    

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    In Plato's Apology, Socrates (pictured) was accused by Meletus of not believing in the gods

    

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14. Secular Web library

    

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15. Others argue for atheism on philosophical, social or historical grounds

    

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    2:12}}) on the early 3rd-century Papyrus 46

    

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    A chart showing the relationship between the definitions of weak/strong and implicit/explicit atheism

    

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18. The Demand for Religion

    

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19. In early Ancient Greek, the adjective (, from the privative - + "god") meant "godless"

    

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    Epicurus is credited with first expounding the problem of evil. David Hume in his Dialogues concerning Natural Religion (1779) cited Epicurus in stating the argument as a series of questions: "Is [God] willing to prevent evil, but not able? then i

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    Ludwig Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity (1841) would greatly influence philosophers such as Engels, Marx, David Strauss, and Nietzsche

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22. Writers disagree how best to define and classify atheism, contesting what supernatural entities it applies to, whether it is an assertion in its own right or merely the absence of one, and whether it requires a conscious, explicit rejection

    

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23. The broadest demarcation of atheistic rationale is between practical and theoretical atheism

    

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24. Although the term atheism originated in 16th-century France, ideas that would be recognized today as atheistic are documented from classical antiquity and the Vedic period

    

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25. It is difficult to quantify the number of atheists in the world

    

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26. Although people who self-identify as atheists are usually assumed to be irreligious, some sects within major religions reject the existence of a personal, creator deity

    

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