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antitheism

(ˌæntɪˈθiːɪzəm)
n
the opposition to belief in god or gods
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Translations
antiteisme
Antitheismus
antiteísmo
antiteismi
antithéisme
antiteisme
antiteizmas
antitheïsme
antyteizm
antiteísmo
антитеизм
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JACOBABAD -- Several programs and rallies were organised by many organizations, political parties including Pakistan Tehreeki-Insaf [PTI] Jacobabad chapter and Pooj Hindu General Panchayat Shikarpur in connection with to celebrate 78th Pakistan Day on 23rd March of 2018 with national zeal and antitheism, here on Friday.
JACOBABAD -- Several programs and rallies were organized by many organizations, political parties including Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Jacobabad chapter and Pooj Hindu General Panchayat Shikarpur in connection to the 78th Pakistan Day on 23rd March of 2018 with national zeal and antitheism on Friday.
Rather, the anti-religious concerns that Dangor raised are more appropriately labeled "antitheism," a term embraced by the late Christopher Hitchens.
Kearney is critical of Habermas's apparent endorsement of a secular faith, and dismantles the pretensions of antitheism, the "antitheistic squad," as he calls it, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens, which reduces religion to its perversions, judges it accordingly, and dismisses it, thus denying critical dialogue.
His nonbelief extended well to antitheism; his frequent and emphatic identification of organized religion as the biggest perverter of human morality was central to both his act and his personal life.
Fromm said he hopes his fellow students don't confuse his atheism, or lack of belief in a deity, with antitheism, or direct opposition to belief in a deity.
Much of the criticism dealing with the play, though, has looked primarily at such issues as its classical roots, its nineteenth-century antitheism, and its prosody, as Richard Mathews notes.
Nietzsche wants to affirm, "I am my own; Not Thou but I am who am." Nietzsche's virulent antitheism may be rooted in his inability or refusal to admire God based upon God's ineradicable superiority.
In reading the works of these thinkers, we may come to conclude that Buddhism's earlier refusal of theism had indeed given way to a well-formed antitheism. It remains noteworthy, however, that these authors adhere throughout their anti-theistic writings to strict principles of philosophical detachment and never allow their arguments to give way to polemical attacks against either theistic religions or their adherents.
Sade's philosophy flowed from his radical egotism, which led him to propound militant antitheism. (1) God's nonexistence reduces the universe to a purely materialist Nature, a self-running mechanism; "the perpetual motion of matter explains everything." (2) People are determinist machines, which annuls moral responsibility.
For both, the inquest into the motive of the Enlightenment points to a revolutionary antitheism animated by proud human reason, self-postulating and therefore deeply problematic.
Early in the play, Bariona's outburst of antitheism is reminiscent of Prometheus's revolt (of which there are, of course, many literary representations).
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