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Bibliography. External links. Irreligion is the absence or rejection of religious beliefs or practices. It encompasses a wide range of viewpoints drawn from various philosophical and intellectual perspectives, including atheism, agnosticism, skepticism, rationalism, and secularism.
24 de ago. de 2018 · Who Is Irreligious? The latter definitions - indifference or hostility - mark irreligion as distinct from atheism and theism. A theist may be religious or irreligious; an atheist may also be religious or irreligious. Both atheists and theists may thus be irreligious or not.
21 de ago. de 2019 · Short Reads. |. August 21, 2019. Among religious ‘nones,’ atheists and agnostics know the most about religion. By. Dalia Fahmy. Atheists, agnostics and those who describe their religion as “nothing in particular” all fit into the broad category “religiously unaffiliated.”
Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which in its most general form is the belief that at least one deity exists .
- The Types of Atheism
- The Nonreligious
- The Nonbelievers
- The Agnostic
- Learning to Talk About Disbelief
The problem is that these statistics do not tell a full story. The term “non-religious” is so broad as to be almost meaningless. The words secular, agnostic, atheistic, humanistic, irreligious, or non-religious are not synonyms. This is not some nit-picky pedantry. For the billion plus people in the world who are one particular type of atheist, the...
The first type of atheism means not subscribing to one of the big, traditional religions. Consider China. It is a country, on first glance, that is hugely irreligious: 91% of Chinese adults can be called atheist. But so much of this data, as in most demographic surveys, hinges on “self-identification” by respondents. The issue is that most people i...
The second type of atheism is one which argues against or rejects certain belief statements. These atheists will define religion (rightly or wrongly) as being a set of creeds, beliefs, and quasi-factual statements that they call false. It is the type of atheism that most are familiar with, and it is often the type which most often pops up on intern...
The third type of atheism is non-committal. It’s called agnosticism. If we define atheism as a belief statement — namely, “I am 100%sure God(s) do(es) not exist” — then there are very few atheists. A lot of the “nonbeliever” types concern themselves with probabilities and verifying belief-claims. But, with many of religion’s claims being supernatur...
Talking about belief (or the lack thereof) is something we could all be better at. Half of U.S. adults “seldom or never” talk about religion with people outside their family. In the UK, former spin doctor for Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell, once said, “we don’t do God”. His point was that religion is a personal (and often unpalatable and awkward) co...
irreligion, the lack or rejection of religious beliefs or practices. Irreligion is a broad concept that encompasses many different positions and draws upon an array of philosophical and intellectual perspectives, including atheism, agnosticism, skepticism, rationalism, and secularism.
29 de mar. de 2024 · Atheism, the critique and denial of metaphysical beliefs in God or spiritual beings. As such, it is usually distinguished from theism, which affirms the reality of the divine and often seeks to demonstrate its existence. Learn more about atheism in this article.
