Timeline for Word for a person who has no opinion about whether god exists
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| Mar 15, 2019 at 5:07 | comment | added | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე | All this is somehow almost opposite to the conscious unwillingness to participate in religious-antireligious ideological warfare. It is similar to calling pacifists cowards. | |
| Mar 15, 2019 at 5:04 | comment | added | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე | ... It may also be a result of perceiving no challenge at all (e.g. the challenge is irrelevant to them, or conversely, they have learned helplessness). Apathy may be a sign of more specific mental problems such as schizophrenia or dementia. | |
| Mar 15, 2019 at 5:03 | comment | added | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე | @JamesRandom Probably. Still - say, from Wikipedia: The apathetic may lack a sense of purpose, worth, or meaning in their life. An apathetic person may also exhibit insensibility or sluggishness. In positive psychology, apathy is described as a result of the individuals feeling they do not possess the level of skill required to confront a challenge | |
| Mar 14, 2019 at 22:46 | comment | added | user323578 | @მამუკაჯიბლაძე It must be subjective because I can't see anything negative at all! | |
| Mar 14, 2019 at 18:35 | comment | added | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე | @JamesRandom Well it is probably subjective but for me it feels unpleasant because it introduces inherently negative connotation for something at worst neutral | |
| Mar 14, 2019 at 15:38 | comment | added | UKMonkey | @Keepthesemind we're using different definitions of attitude... the joy of words having multiple meanings. | |
| Mar 14, 2019 at 15:32 | comment | added | Řídící | @UKMonkey Opinions and attitudes: macmillandictionary.com/thesaurus-category/british/… | |
| Mar 14, 2019 at 15:29 | comment | added | UKMonkey | @Keepthesemind opinion is not attitude; and visa versa was exactly my point. Someone might think the earth is round, but not care to argue with someone who thinks it's flat. That doesn't change that they think it's round. | |
| Mar 14, 2019 at 15:25 | comment | added | Řídící | @UKMonkey "It is more of an attitude rather than a belief, claim, or belief system." (See link in answer.) This matches the question, which is about lack of opinion, quite nicely. | |
| Mar 14, 2019 at 15:10 | comment | added | UKMonkey | This definition doesn't define anything about the persons belief. It just states how willing they are to argue about it. | |
| Mar 14, 2019 at 14:52 | comment | added | user323578 | @მამუკაჯიბლაძე Sense 1 is less relevant (but not completely irrelevant). But, again, why is it unpleasant? | |
| Mar 13, 2019 at 21:48 | comment | added | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე | @JamesRandom Because of Apathy 1 there | |
| Mar 13, 2019 at 21:47 | comment | added | user323578 | @მამუკაჯიბლაძე Why does the obvious association with apathy make it unpleasant? Apathy is an accurate description: "Apathy 2 : lack of interest or concern : INDIFFERENCE" merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apathy | |
| Mar 13, 2019 at 19:58 | comment | added | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე | @Birjolaxew Well but one can be also actively rejecting importance of the question. For example, because of the opinion that controversy around it has caused lots of violence. | |
| Mar 13, 2019 at 15:08 | comment | added | Birjolaxew | @მამუკაჯიბლაძე Isn't not caring/being interested in whether god exists by definition an apathetic approach? It seems very accurate to name it after apathy | |
| Mar 13, 2019 at 2:35 | comment | added | Drew | I was just about to hit Enter with a kidding comment to the question, coining the word apatheist. Imagine my surprise to find here that the word exists. | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 20:23 | comment | added | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე | Slightly unpleasant term, associates with apathy... | |
| Mar 11, 2019 at 22:18 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | ... Thomas Molnar, Theists and Atheists: A Typology of Non-belief (1980) has no such term as "apatheism," although it he does suggest that pantheism, taken literally, amounts to a kind of "God is irrelevant" atheism because equating God with everything that exists is equivalent to taking God out out of the mix of factors that differentiate one thing from another. | |
| Mar 11, 2019 at 22:18 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | It may be worth noting that "apatheism" and "apatheist" are relatively recent coinages. Douglass Groothuis, Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith (2010) attributes the word to Jonathan Rauch's article "Let It Be" in the May 2003 Atlantic Monthly (cited also in the Wikipedia article you link to. ... | |
| Mar 11, 2019 at 18:33 | vote | accept | Tolure | ||
| Mar 11, 2019 at 18:24 | history | answered | Řídící | CC BY-SA 4.0 |