atheism rejection of deities

what are the supportes of new atheism

themain four include sam harris richard dawkins danial dennet and christopher hitches and have been called the four horsemen of the non apocolypes

what did enlightenment thinkers question

traditional authority and embraced the notion that humanity could be of traditional ideas including those forwarded by religion such as christianity

what are the different tyos of atheism according to flew

weak/negative atheism strong/positive atheism protest atheism new atheism

when was the term new atheism coined

2006 by Gary Wolfe to describ the positions promoted by atheists of the twenty first century

what is the new atheistic criticism of religion infantile world view

Dawkins believed religion gives rise to an infantile/babyish worldview such as evolution, his analogy is the mount improbable. Dawkins claims that the kind of views of the world which religious people embrace are meaningless in comparision to how the world actually us. in religion the world is a "poky little medival universe and extremely limited. therefroe new atheism rejects the idea of religion and claim that such beliefs fail to do justive to the beaituifl but random real world

what is protest atheism

a complete rejection of God, while atheism is a disbleif in god, the protest atheist refuses to accept that god if he exists is worthy of worship. protest atheist steven fry argued that if goddid eist he wouldnot awant anyhting to do with him because a god that justifies the suffeing of innocents is not worthy of worship

what is atheism

a disbeleif in the existence of god

what happened in the 21st centrues

a moremilitatn form of rejection of belief in god coined as 'new atheism' it claims religon is not jsut outdated but a threat to the human race

what happened in the 1960's

a movement within chrisstianity that many viewed as a rejection of belief in god, it was no longer acceptable to hold the traditional view of god, an omnipotent being, instead god became a symbol that resolves in the himanmind with no objective or empirical existence

how did anthony flew define atheism

a psychological state the state of not beliving in the existence of god of gods

what is strong agnosticism

also called clsoed, the view that the question of the exstence of the exstence of non existence of god is unknowable because of humanities natural limitations, out inability to verify non emerical beliefs

where were the different shades of atheism introduces

anthony flew 1972 book the presumption of atheism

two enlightenment thinkers

bentham and mill, unilitarianism designed as a regection of traditional religious ethics hume, critical of traditional religious ideas like miracles cosmological andteleological arguemnts

what is dawkings mount inprobable analogy

dawkings links the notion that the full complexity of life emerged by the hand of an intelligent designer leaping up the sheer face of a mountain in one bound by contrast he suggests Darwins theory of evolution provides an explantion which is akin to climbing a mounting gradually.

what was the enlightenment area

europea philosophy and science radically changed during the course of the 18th centrues due to the age of reason or enlightenment era,

what helped the rise of new atheism

extremisms that led to many people to see religous extremeists and religion as dangerous

what did aristotle doubt about religion

he argued for the existence of a divine being , prime move who is responsible for the unity and purposefullnes of nature however, he was sceptical and critical of traditional ideas of gods for example "prayers and sacrafices to the gods are of no avail" or "men create gods in their own image not only with regard for their form but with regard to their mode of life

what was diognese sceptical of

he was the founder of cynism and carried it over to religion, he believed it had no relevance for daily life "wheni look upon seamen men of science and philosophers man is the wisest of all things when i look upon priests prophetsandinterpreters of freamsnothing is contemptible

where did atheism begin

in ancient grece the birth place of philosophy people became sceptical about the existence of gods and religion

what is the british example of an increase in fundamental religious activity relation to moralit and community

in the UK the christian institute promote a conservative christian viewpoint founded on a belief in the iteral interpretation of the buble,, the istitude campaigns on social and moral issues seeing to influence parliment and on occasion taking legal action to support christian issues for example it recently helped fund the legal battle of ashers baking compant where the bakers were prosicuted because they refused to decorate a cake with the slogan support gay marriage"

what is Dawkins example of religion impeding scientific progress

infallible doctrine of assumption which was declared by Pope pius XII in 1950 by relying soley according to Dawkins upon a religious tradition and dogma.

where did new atheism began

it can be traced ack to bertrand russles 1972 book why i am not a christian which put forward similar positions to new atheist

what are the two basic rleigious responses to new atheism

it fails to pit an advanced alternative of its own it is just anti religious its like saying a football team is bad bit not explaining why another one is better. It also only attacks basic stereotypes of religious belief ignoring any depth

what is agnosticism

it is used to indicate a person is sat on the fence refusing to comit themselves when deciding if god exists

what supported the 60's movement away from God

john robinson was inspired by jung which can be seen when he described god as part of our being instead of an objective force. Traditional religious theology places god outside and about our world hwoever robison places god within the mind and argued you find god within yourselves

what example did Dawkinsgive for thenon thinking critisism of religion

lourdes in france, pilgrims seeing a cure illistrate group solidarity that does not allow rathional thought of realit. the faithful quing ofwater are nmore likely to give people a disease from people that find a cure

protagoras quote

man is the measure of all things. this places men at the centre of value judements, this idea resulted in protagoras being banished from athens and his work burnt

explain the increase in fundamental religious activity relationg to morality and community as a religious response to new atheism

new atheism attacks on religion has led to an increase of religious fundamentalism (an unwavering attatchment to a set of religious beliefs such as Amish christians) howevr some sociaologists believe society has moved away from religious beleifs so many religious groups have become more fundamental in respose and active in opposing changes encouraged by new atheism by seeing to influence governments for example the so called christan rught in the USA is an informal coalition of envangical protestants and recently credited with DOnald Trump. Trump has been helping further christian beliefs such as announcing jerusalum as israels capital.

expalin the religious response of rejection by religious groups of the claim of science and religion being incompatible

new atheism firmly believes science is the only explantion of the universe and deny the possibilty of science being aided by religion in the universe's complexities. Many scientists were religious and the teleological argument both link science and religion

what are non atheisms main criticism of religion

non thinking infantile world view impedes scientific progress

how does the nonthinking critisim of religion argue danger

non thinking leads to fanticism and religion helps to provide the climate of faith in which extremism naturally flourishes as dawkins states "only religios faith is strong enough force to motivate such utter madness in otherwise same and decent people"

who were the three greek philosophers sceptical about religion

protagoras aristotle diogenes

what are the three specific religious responses to the chalenge of new atheism

rejection by religious groups of new atheist claiming incompatibility with science and religion increase in fundamental religious activity relation to mortality and community increase in religious apologists in media

what is the new atheistic religious critisism of impedes scientific progress

science involves a constant process of testing and revisin theories in the light of new evidence while faith makes a virtue out of believing unprovable and improbable. Dawkins contrasts his example of the doctrine of asumption with the scientific method whcih he describes as a system whereby working assumptions may be falsified by recourse to reason or evidence. Dawkins gave the example of a reseacher disproving a proffessors hypothesis and the proessor accepted it. Dawkins argued that when a science book is wrong someone corrects it but that doesnt happen with holy books

what are the different types of agnosticism

strong weak apethetic

what is strong/positive atheism

the atheist would give reasons for their disbelief and state "this is why i done beleive in God"

what is weak/negative atheism

the atheit does not claim god does not xjst but states they do not believe god but do not argue that his position is true. atheism is their default position a weak atheist would NOT say "this is why i dont beleive in god"

what is new athiesm

the beleif that religion is a threat to the survival of human race

what does agnosticism mean on an achedeic level

the existence of god is not knowable as human knowledge is limited so cannot the ultimate truth

what do new atheist/ modern atheist advocate

the iew that religion should not simply be tolerated but countered and exposed by rational argument wherever their influence arises such as in govenment or education

what is the non thinking criticism of new atheism

the process of non thinking is called faith-dawknis. religious belif is not a way of understanding theworld but instead stands in a fundemental opposition to modern science and the scientific method making it dangerous. Dawkins considers faith is blind trust without evidence "faith is the great copout the great excuse toevade the need to think and evaluate evidence therefore religious people are not thining.

what is the religious response to new athiesm the increase in religious apologist in the media

the rise of new atheism led to an increase in religious apologists in the mass media. religious apologists are religious peole who present rational and evidence based arguments to justify their beleifs for axample Shabir Ally is a canadian muslim apologists who debates islam and express commanalities with christianity the advent of social media has also enabled christian apologists such as ravi zcharias and alastair mccrath to raise their media profile and open up their arguemnts to a wider audience

what is apethetic agnosticism

the view that no amout of debate can prove or disprove the existence of God, or if one or more deities exist they are not concerned of the fate of humans therfore their existence has little to no impact on personal human affairs and should be of little interest

what is weak agnosticism

the view that the existence or non existence of God is currently unknown but is not necessarily unknowable at some point in the future therefore the weak agnostic will withold judgement until suitable evidence if any becomes available