ATHEISM

AND ITS
GROWTH
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Atheist
Linguistic Meaning: Not a
theist or Someone who doesn’t
believe in a God or gods. It
comes from Greek words where
prefix ‘a’ means none or not
and ‘theos’ means a belief of
the existence of an intervening
God or gods

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Some Forms of Atheism
Positive Atheism Veiled Agnoisticism Merely No God
A type of atheism Convinced by any It is a mere choice
that rises because of atheist argument and
lack of knowledge or doesn’t have enough
rational thoughts. argument to be
convinced with
theism

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Misotheism
✗ Linguistic Meaning: Misos (Hatred) and Theos
(God)
✗ Promoter: Algernon Charles Swinburn, Zora
Neale Hurtson, Rebecca West, Elie Wiesel, Peter
Shaffer, Philip Pullman – Professor Burnard
Schweizer (Hating God: The Untold Story of
Misotheism)
✗ Arguments: What is the God’s role on human
suffering? What’s the God’s contribution on
humanity?
✗ Flaws:
1. Anthropomorphise God and turn Him into a
limited man.
2. Inability of observing holistically and trying 4
Philosophical Naturalism
Definition Views
All phenomena within ✗ There is nothing
this universe can be supernatural.
explained via physical ✗ Nothing outside of the
process though the universe interfere the
processes are blind universe
and non-rational. ✗ Some even believes on
the existence of non-
physical phenomena
✗ Religion and Science
can’t be togather
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Islamic Definition on Atheism
Literal Meaning Linguistic Meaning Perspective
It comes from Atheism is a deviation ✗ Atheism is
“Ilhaad” that means
And who wouldofbewhat is to
averse natural
the and unnatural and
Deviation andreligion
the of Abraham except one who
rational. aberration of
makes a fool of himself… [2:130]
best translation is human psyche
Godlessness ✗ Atheist are
polytheist because
they deny Allah
Lahad

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The Growth of Atheism
“God is delution".
- Richard Dawkins

“My concern is that our religions,

the diversity of our religious
doctrines, is going to get us
killed".
- Sam Harris

“Religion poisons everything".

- Christopher Hitchens

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The Growth of Atheism  25.1% of People in
England and Wales
claim that they
England and Europ don’t have any
Wales e religion
 46% people in
China
Saudi Europe do not
Arabia believe in the
traditional concept
of God
 50% Chinese
consider
themselves as
atheist
 5% Saudis are
convinced by
atheism and 19%
are non-religious