- 1無神論
Atheism is the belief that God does not exist — or, when people speak more carefully, that there are no gods. It names the idea, not a person. In everyday English it can sound strong and final: not “I’m not sure” (that sits closer to ), but “I don’t believe there is a God.” Some people wear the word proudly; some use it quietly; some dislike it because it has been used as an insult. It belongs more to serious talk, philosophy, and news than to small talk. Though actually, people use it loosely: someone who simply never goes to a temple or church is not automatically holding this belief — they may never have thought about it. And atheism is not the same as hating religion, even though arguments often glue those two together.
組成From 16th-century French athéisme, from athée (“atheist”), itself from Ancient Greek átheos “godless”: a- “without” + theós “god,” plus the French ending that English spells -ism (a belief or system). First English use is recorded in 1587.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
atheismnoun/ˈeɪ.θi.ɪ.zəm/
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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.
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A non-belief in deities.
- Near-synonyms: irreligion, irreligiousness, nonreligion, nonreligiousness
- The theory of Secularism is a form, not of dogmatic, but of skeptical, Atheism; it is dogmatic only in denying the sufficiency of the evidence for the being and perfections of God. It does not deny, it only does not believe, His existence.
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A non-belief in deities.
- What can parents do, and mothers more especially, […] with regard to the atheism that is natural to all the children of men?
- Atheism, in its basic form, is not a belief; it is the absence of belief. An atheist is not primarily a person who believes that a god does not exist; rather, he does not believe in the existence of a god.
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neglect of one's obligations to God; behavior incongruent with belief in God (regardless of belief in the strict sense).
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historicalrareAbsence of belief in a particular deity, pantheon, or religious doctrine (notwithstanding belief in other deities).
- Domitilla, Flavia, niece of the emperor Domitian (81-96). She and her husband, Flavius Clemens (consul in 95 and cousin of Domitian), were probably Christians; charged with atheism and adoption of Jewish ways, they were punished (95) with death (Clemens) and exile (Domitilla).
- 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.
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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.
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