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agnosticism
Agnosticism is the stance that the existence of God, the divine, the supernatural, or any other untestable claim is either unknowable in principle or unknown in fact. It can also mean an apathy towards such religious belief and refer to personal limitations rather than a worldview. Another definition is the view that "human reason is incapable of providing sufficient rational grounds to justify either the belief that God exists or the belief that God does not exist."
Russell's Teapot
analogy devised by Bertrand Russell
ignosticism
Ignosticism or igtheism is the idea that the question of the existence of God is meaningless because the word "God" has no coherent and unambiguous definition.
Hitchens' razor
Epistemological razor regarding the burden of proof
agnostic atheism
lack of belief in the existence of any deity and that such is either unknowable or unknown
agnostic theism
philosophical view that encompasses both theism and agnosticism
ietsism
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Nasadiya Sukta
Hymn from Rig Veda that talks about creation of everything.
God-Building
God-Building is an idea proposed by some prominent early Marxists in the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in the early-20th century. Inspired by Auguste Comte's Religion of Humanity, the concept had some precedent in the French Revolution with the Cult of Reason of the 1790s. The idea proposed that in place of the abolition of religion, there should be a meta-religious context in which religions were viewed primarily in terms of the psychological and social effect of ritual, myth, and symbolism. God-building aimed to harness this force for pro-communist aims, bot
theological noncognitivism
position that religious language – specifically, words such as "God" – are not cognitively meaningful; sometimes considered synonymous with ignosticism
Purana Kassapa
6th century BCE Indian philosopher
neti neti
chant or mantra in Hinduism, and in particular Jnana Yoga and Advaita Vedanta
Adevism
Adevism (from the Sanskrit term deva, on the analogy of atheism) is a term introduced by Friedrich Max Müller to imply the denial of gods, in particular, the legendary gods of Vedic Hinduism. Müller used it in the Gifford Lectures in connection with the Vedanta philosophy, for the correlative of ignorance or nescience. In modern contexts it is rarely found, though it is sometimes used to represent a disbelief in any gods, contrasted with a specific disbelief in the Judaeo-Christian deity (God). Adevism is not to be confused with atheism, which is the denial of a god or gods. Adevism is used ex
Gertrude Yorkes
ficitonal character in Marvel Comics