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Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. 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.
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El ateísmo es, en su sentido más amplio, la ausencia de la creencia en la existencia de las deidades. 1 2 3 4 En sentido estricto, es el rechazo de la creencia de que cualquier deidad exista. 5 6 En una definición aún más restringida, el ateísmo es específicamente la postura que defiende que no existen las deidades. 1 2 7 8 S...
Ateísmo, den un sentido amplio, ta nifiká e rechaso di kreénsia den eksistensia di religion. Den un sentido mas konkreto, ateísmo ta e punto di bista ku no tin diosnan. Ateísmo ta kontrastá ku teísmo, ku den su forma general ta e kerementu ku por lo menos un dios ta eksistí. Mapa di ateísmo na mundu
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The 2004 publication of The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris, a bestseller in the United States, was joined over the next couple years by a series of popular best-sellers by atheist authors. Harris was motivated by the events of 11 September 2001, which he laid directly at the feet of Islam, while also directly...
"Four Horsemen"
On 30 September 2007, four prominent atheists (Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens and Daniel Dennett) met at Hitchens' residence in Washington, D.C., for a private two-hour unmoderated discussion. The event was videotaped and titled "The Four Horsemen". During "The God Debate" in 2010 featuring Christopher Hitchens versus Dinesh D'Souza, the men were collectively referred to as the "Four Horsemen of the Non-Apocalypse", an allusion to the biblical Four Horsemen of the Apocalyps...
"Plus one horse-woman"
After the death of Hitchens, Ayaan Hirsi Ali (who attended the 2012 Global Atheist Convention, which Hitchens had been scheduled to attend) was referred to as the "plus one horse-woman", since she was originally invited to the 2007 meeting of the "Horsemen" atheists but had to cancel at the last minute. Hirsi Ali was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, fleeing in 1992 to the Netherlands in order to escape an arranged marriage. She became involved in Dutch politics, rejected faith, and became vocal in...
Others
Others have either self-identified as or been classified by some commentators as New Atheists: 1. Rebecca Goldstein, philosopher and author of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God 2. Peter Boghossian, philosopher and author of A Manual for Creating Atheists 3. Michel Onfray, author of Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam 4. Victor J. Stenger, author of God: The Failed Hypothesis / How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist 5. Greta Christina, author of Why Are...
Many contemporary atheists write from a scientific perspective. Unlike previous writers, many of whom thought that science was indifferent or even incapable of dealing with the "God" concept, Dawkins argues to the contrary, claiming the "God Hypothesis" is a valid scientific hypothesis, having effects in the physical universe, and like any other hy...
Scientism, accusations of evangelicalism and fundamentalism
The theologians Jeffrey Robbins and Christopher Rodkey take issue with what they regard as "the evangelical nature of the New Atheism, which assumes that it has a Good News to share, at all cost, for the ultimate future of humanity by the conversion of as many people as possible." They believe they have found similarities between New Atheism and evangelical Christianityand conclude that the all-consuming nature of both "encourages endless conflict without progress" between both extremities. P...
Criticisms of responses to theistic arguments
Edward Feserhas critiqued the New Atheists' responses to arguments for the existence of God, especially Dawkins' and Dennett's.
Accusations of bigotry
The New Atheist movement has been criticized as sexist, especially prominent figures Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins. Some commentators have accused the New Atheist movement of Islamophobia. Wade Jacoby and Hakan Yavuz assert that "a group of 'new atheists' such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens" have "invoked Samuel Huntington's 'clash of civilizations' theory to explain the current political contestation" and that this forms part of a trend toward "Islamophobia [...] i...
In a June 2021 retrospective article, Phil Torres of Salon claimed that prominent figures in the New Atheist movement had aligned themselves with the far-right. In a June 2022 retrospective article, Sebastian Milbank of The Criticclaimed that "As a movement, New Atheism has fractured and lost its original spirit.", that "Much of what New Atheism em...
Ata Ur Rehman, & Prof. Dr. Tahira Basharat. (2021). God’s Existence: Philosophical Discourse between New Atheists and Muslim Scholars. Pakistan Journal of Islamic Philosophy, 3(2), 1-16. Retrieved...
Ateísmo, num sentido amplo, é a ausência de crença na existência de divindades. O ateísmo é oposto ao teísmo, que em sua forma mais geral é a crença de que existe ao menos uma divindade.
Taoísmo. El pensamiento filosófico taoísta surge en la antigua China aproximadamente en el siglo IV a. C., de la mano del sabio Lao-Tsé, quien planteaba una línea de pensamiento contemplativa y retrospectiva sobre la base de la observación de los fenómenos cosmológicos que lo llevaron a desarrollar una concepción metafísica naturalista.
Ateísmo ye la posiçon filosófica de que nun eisisten diuses, ó que rejeita l cunceito de l teísmo. An sentido lhato, ye la ouséncia de fé na eisisténcia de dibindades.
