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'Apatheism' (a portmanteau of ''atheism'' and ''apathy''), also known as pragmatic or practical atheism, is a subset of atheism (when atheism is defined as lack of belief in deities, rather than specific disbelief in deities). An apatheist is someone who is not interested in accepting or denying any claims that God, or any other supernatural being, exists or does not exist. In other words, an apatheist is someone who considers the question of the existence of God as neither meaningful nor relevant to human affairs.
The eighteenth century French philosopher Denis Diderot, when accused of being an atheist, replied that he simply did not care whether God existed or not. In response to Voltaire, he wrote,
:It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God.[1]
George Jacob Holyoake, the English Owenite lecturer — who coined the term secularism — held that secularists should not be militant freethinkers but should instead take no interest at all in religious questions because they were irrelevant.
In the Atlantic magazine, Jonathan Rauch describes apatheism as "a disinclination to care all that much about one's own religion an even a stronger disinclination to care about other peoples" (Rauch, Jonathan, ''Atlantic'' May, 2000).
The logical basis for Apatheism is not that if real God would not be very important but rather that since it is an absurd superstition it is without essential import other than as a political and social reality.
★ Indifferentism
1. Against the Faith, , Jim, Herrick, Glover & Blair, 1985, ISBN 0-906681-09-X
★ Rauch, Jonathan, ''Let It Be: Three Cheers for Apatheism'', ''The Atlantic Monthly'', May 2000
★ Apatheism, Allognosticism, and the American Religious Landscape.
★ The Church of Apatheism, a web page first published in August 2000 which also uses the terms “apatheism” and “apatheist”
★ Apatheism defined on Atheism.about.com
★ "Let It Be: Three Cheers for Apatheism" by Jonathan Rauch ''Atlantic'' May 2000
★ ABC New Radio:wordwatch, Apatheism
★ Apathetic Agnostics
'Apatheism' (a portmanteau of ''atheism'' and ''apathy''), also known as pragmatic or practical atheism, is a subset of atheism (when atheism is defined as lack of belief in deities, rather than specific disbelief in deities). An apatheist is someone who is not interested in accepting or denying any claims that God, or any other supernatural being, exists or does not exist. In other words, an apatheist is someone who considers the question of the existence of God as neither meaningful nor relevant to human affairs.
The eighteenth century French philosopher Denis Diderot, when accused of being an atheist, replied that he simply did not care whether God existed or not. In response to Voltaire, he wrote,
:It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God.[1]
George Jacob Holyoake, the English Owenite lecturer — who coined the term secularism — held that secularists should not be militant freethinkers but should instead take no interest at all in religious questions because they were irrelevant.
In the Atlantic magazine, Jonathan Rauch describes apatheism as "a disinclination to care all that much about one's own religion an even a stronger disinclination to care about other peoples" (Rauch, Jonathan, ''Atlantic'' May, 2000).
The logical basis for Apatheism is not that if real God would not be very important but rather that since it is an absurd superstition it is without essential import other than as a political and social reality.
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See also
★ Indifferentism
References
1. Against the Faith, , Jim, Herrick, Glover & Blair, 1985, ISBN 0-906681-09-X
★ Rauch, Jonathan, ''Let It Be: Three Cheers for Apatheism'', ''The Atlantic Monthly'', May 2000
External links
★ Apatheism, Allognosticism, and the American Religious Landscape.
★ The Church of Apatheism, a web page first published in August 2000 which also uses the terms “apatheism” and “apatheist”
★ Apatheism defined on Atheism.about.com
★ "Let It Be: Three Cheers for Apatheism" by Jonathan Rauch ''Atlantic'' May 2000
★ ABC New Radio:wordwatch, Apatheism
★ Apathetic Agnostics
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