atheism (redirected fromGodlessness (atheism)) Thesaurus Encyclopedia a·the·ism (ā′thē-ĭz′əm) n. Disbelief in or denial of the existence of God or gods. [Frenchathéisme, fromathée,atheist, from Greekatheos,godless:a-,without; seea-1+theos,god; seedhēs-inIndo-European roots....
Related to atheism:Richard Dawkins,New atheism atheism(āˈthē-ĭzˌəm), denial of the existence of God or gods and of any supernatural existence, to be distinguished fromagnosticism, which holds that the existence cannot be proved. The termatheismhas been used as an accusation against...
What’s going on? Why have so many people used his book in support of atheism when he specifically writes that he has no problem with God as understood by Einstein and others? Dawkins gives us a hint. He writes on the same page that when he denies God he is “only talking aboutsupe...
1.(with capital) the creator and ruler of the world (in the Christian, Jewishetcreligions).Dios 2.(feminineˈgoddess) a supernatural being who is worshipped.the gods of Greece and Rome.dios;diosa ˈgodlyadjective religious.a godly man/life.piadoso ...
Long before the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter of serious public debate in the Greek world. But history is written by those who prevail, and the Age of Faith mostly suppressed the lively free-thinking voices of antiquity. Tim Whit...
Socrates turns to the charge of impiety. Is he being accused of atheism, or of introducing strange gods? The two charges are not consistent with each other; and in fact, Meletus seems to be confusing him with Anaxagoras who said the sun was made of stone and the moon of earth. As fo...
Around the world, the U.S. has tentacles of atheism, homosexuality, abortion, imposing an anti-Christian agenda on weaker nations. This monopoly of violence known as The United States government is the enemy of God and humanity. But you resist abolishing the U.S. government and allowing anarc...
presumption of atheism ‐ not the presumptuous insolence, at the beginning of the final book of The LawsPlato accusing those who dare to disbelieve in “the existence of the gods”and salutary and inflexible interventions in human affairsdistinguishing three elements of analogy, between presumption ...
Thus, there are as many different kinds of atheism as there are names of gods or groups of gods.Some atheists may know of many gods and reject belief in the existence of all of them. Such a person might be called a polyatheist. All theists are atheists in the sense that they ...
Well, it was shocking enough for him to be accused of atheism 好吧,反正足够让犹太人和基hearts;督hearts;徒 by both Jews and Christians, 共同指控他是无神论者 [那个年代的无神论者.其罪堪比张姑父... 算下来烧死布鲁诺不过才半个世纪而已...] but Spinoza was no atheist. 可是, Spinoza可不是无神论...