Atheism/Apatheism
What is modern atheism?
Atheism is respectable, academic; Less emotion, more analysis
Who was the primary founder of Agnosticism?
Thomas Henry Huxley
What is the moral argument?
Objective moral values point beyond humanity to a moral lawgiver.
Atheists are commonly which gender?
males
What was the first religion?
Animism
What is skepticism?
All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone’s feelings
What is Agnosticism?
The existence of God or the divine is unknown and probably unknowable.
What does apologia mean?
To make a defense
What words is Apatheist made out of?
Apathy and Theistic/theisim/Atheism
When did Atheism become official?
late 18th-century or Enlightenment Era
What is “deism”?
God is real but uninvolved
What are the two types of Agnosticism?
Soft Agnosticism, Hard Agnosticism
What is Christological Apologetics?
The best historical explanation for the rise of Christianity is that Jesus truly rose from the dead
Agnosticsism is most common in which country(s)?
Japan, Sweden, the Czech Republic, and Australia.
When did the word apatheism become a thing?
First coined in 2001
What is apatheism?
The belief that “it doesn’t matter” if there is a God or not
What is the difference between Soft and Hard Agonsticism?
Soft Agnosticism focuses more on intellectual humility while Hard Agnosticism focuses more on epistemological certainty
The universe appears extraordinarily calibrated for life
What is the fine turning argument?
What is Apologetics?
The discipline of defending, explaining, and justifying a specific belief system
When did agnosticism start?
1869
What is new atheism?
Religion is dangerous; atheism should be the default rational position
What does the word Agnosticism, broken down, mean?
Without secret or direct spiritual knowledge
What is the cosmological argument?
The existence of the universe requires a sufficient cause
What is the most common blood type?
0+
When did apologetics become an official concept?
Ancient Greece